WIDESPREAD RAIN last week still may not have been enough to avert decision time for many North Island dairy farmers, says DairyNZ regional team manager Craig McBeth.

THE FONTERRA Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction on February 5 shows a solid rise in the GDT Trade Weighted Index (TWI) which takes in the basket of our dairy products, up 2.4% from the previous auction.

A MORRINSVILLE farmer has been fined $33,000 for illegally discharging dairy effluent into the environment.  So deep was the effluent that cows’ udders were dragging in it.  

SOME SOUTH-WEST Victorian dairy farmers are facing a A$260,000 cash flow problem as costs escalate and income drops.

RURAL INSURANCE company FMG has awarded 15 prizes to farmers as part of its milk quality awareness campaign.

What steps can we take to reduce nitrous oxide emissions and nitrate leaching without using DCD?  Professor Mike Wilkinson of Nottingham University, UK, outlines some options for milk producers.

THE DISCOVERY of DCD in milk is a minor food safety concern compared with the animal, human and environmental effects of New Zealand’s high level of synthetic fertiliser use, says biological farming exponent Phyllis Tichinin.

DELAVAL WILL this week join the 1400 exhibitors at the three-day World Ag Expo in California, reckoned the world’s largest annual farming show.

FACIAL ECZEMA (FE) is a disease with a huge economic impact in the warm humid areas of New Zealand, points out Robin Pharmaceuticals, maker of the FiltaBac treatment for the disease.

PLANT PESTS had better look out in Manawatu region. Horizons Regional Council’s ‘Woody Weedbuster’ will be drumming up interest at Central Districts Field Days, encouraging young and old to wage war on weeds that do no good to farms and the environment.