Displaying items by tag: DairyNZ

A DairyNZ project helping farmers in the Tararua district, lower North Island, to reduce nitrogen leaching by planting some of their paddocks in plantain is gaining momentum.

DairyNZ will explore shifts in technology uptake by farmers in the levy body’s five-yearly tech survey.

DairyNZ says the Government’s decision to allow 300 more international dairy farm workers into New Zealand doesn’t do enough to help resolve the sector’s significant staff shortage.

OPINION: Your canine crusader understands Beef+Lamb NZ and DairyNZ farmer directors up for re-election in the next year or two may have a battle in front of them.

Farmers are reluctantly facing up to a levy being imposed on them for agriculture greenhouse gas emissions.

OPINION: It' s only a matter of time before a positive case of Covid-19 turns up on-farm.

OPINION: This week sees the start of the revised He Waka Eke Noa roadshow run by DairyNZ and Beef+Lamb NZ.

OPINION: DairyNZ was forced to cancel its Top of the South farmer meetings, called to discuss a drought response.

DairyNZ has entered the debate between Federated Farmers and Environment Southland (ES) over water quality targets.

It would appear that the industry has been reluctant to go ahead with the He Waka Eke Noa consultation because of Covid and have felt heavily pressured to do this, against their better judgement.