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DairyNZ Farmers’ Forums start this week with dairy’s future and opportunities heading the agenda.

The dairy industry is supporting councils in their efforts to get all farmers to meet their effluent obligations.

Now is the time for dairy farmers to develop a pasture ‘road map’ to ensure they have enough feed to take their farms through calving to the balance date in mid-September.

Range in body condition score (BCS) is as important as average BCS at calving on New Zealand dairy farms, according to DairyNZ.

Regulators are being urged to work with and not against farmers.

Westland District mayor Bruce Smith isn’t buying suggestions that productive farmland at Franz Josef should be abandoned to the flood-prone Waiho River.

A national plan to eradicate Mycoplasma bovis and support farmers during the process has been released.

A large majority of 1794 submissions received by DairyNZ on the biosecurity response levy were supportive.

An 18-month long project to understand how changes on farm to reduce greenhouse gas emissions may impact a farms profitability and productivity has come to fruition.

Dairy farmers are welcoming the report released today by the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment.