Cuddling cows
OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its…
Maui Milk chairman Paul McGilvary says the company needs more sheep milk to meet market demand and achieve processing efficiency.
A Chinese company financing a multi million-dollar sheep milk venture near Taupo plans to build processing plants in other regions.
The sheep milk industry has seen a breakthrough in getting semen from European milking sheep approved for entry to New Zealand.
Maui Milk has acquired a 770ha farm near Lake Taupo and is converting it to a sheep milking operation aimed at achieving $4 million farm income within two to three years.
Talk of a billion dollar sheep dairy industry is unhelpful, according Maui Milk chief executive Peter Gatley.
Rising interest in dairy sheep is about to be matched by the availability of milking ewes thanks to 15-year-old frozen embryos.
OPINION: Years of floods and low food prices have driven a dairy farm in England's northeast to stop milking its…
OPINION: An animal activist organisation is calling for an investigation into the use of dairy cows in sexuallly explicit content…