Displaying items by tag: DairyNZ
Many ways to reduce water use, improve efficiency
Efficient processes for milk cooling, vat wash and yard hosing can add up to significant savings in water.
Farmers’ social licence fast expiring – warning
Dairying has a lot at stake as the world enters the fourth industrial revolution, says former DairyNZ chairman John Luxton.
Where will all those inputs end up?
Why is it important to reduce sediment, phosphorus and E. coli losses from winter grazed paddocks?
Dairy tackles greenhouse gas emissions
DairyNZ chief executive Dr Tim Mackle says the new Dairy Action for Climate Change combines raising the dairy sector’s awareness of the issue and taking positive steps to mitigate the problem.
Farmers join forces to improve water
Joint work by industry and the Government has been vital to agriculture making progress on environmental issues.
New rules in danger of squeezing out valued workers
DairyNZ says proposed new rules on migrant workers will make it harder to employ and retain good staff.
Plantain emerging from the shadows
Nitrogen entering the soil from the urine of cows is a big problem.
Public sentiment, trade access driving new disbudding regulations
Providing pain relief when disbudding calves is not mandated by regulation but it is coming, says DairyNZ animal husbandry specialist Bruce Eyers.
Get on that technology bus
Information technology will be the key to farming in the future, says DairyNZ’s general manager for research and development.
Dairy gears up to lower greenhouse gas emissions
Modern, science-based farming is the way to achieve a future for New Zealand where dairy farming has a lower environmental footprint, says DairyNZ’s chief executive, Dr Tim Mackle.
