PRICES FOR most fertilisers are down with the two main suppliers releasing new but as usual almost identical price lists.

SHAREMILKING REMAINS one of the best pathways to farm ownership, says Federated Farmers’ sharemilkers section’s new leadership.

CONSUMER RESEARCH has revealed 72% of people in Asia see dairy as an important part of a balanced diet. However, the research also shows fewer than half the 9000 people surveyed in nine countries are eating dairy daily. 

HIGH DEMAND and successive years of low production has created a fodder supply shortage in Australia’s dairying regions, creating headaches for farmers sourcing feed.

IAN PROUDFOOT’S article in the last Dairy News ((May 28) deserves a response, particularly as his claims on biosecurity funding cuts are completely wrong.

FONTERRA BRAND Tip Top’s Boysenberry Ripple ice cream has won the supreme award for a large manufacturer in this year’s national ice cream awards – the second consecutive year it has taken the award.

MIXED PASTURE species may be another tool some farmers can use to reduce the amount of nitrogen their cows put on pastures through their urine, says a DairyNZ senior scientist.

AT LEAST 300 dairy farmers turned out last month in the South Island to hear the results of LIC’s national herd fertility study, described as a “big hit” by Greg McNeil, the co-op’s reproduction solutions manager. He is co-hosting the event with Cognosco, the research arm of Anexa Health Centre Ltd, and DairyNZ. 

THIS ARTICLE addresses the question ‘Are higher input systems more or less risky than low input systems?’ 

AGCO WILL launch six new Valtra tractors at National Fieldays, expanding the brand’s popular A, N and T series.