Displaying items by tag: Milking It

OPINION: In the aftermath of a mass shooting earlier this year on the campus of Michigan State University in the US, the university's herd of cows has provided comfort to students.

OPINION: It's interesting to note that Dutch co-operative Arla Foods is paying its farmers billions for reducing their scope three emissions (that's greenhouse gas emissions generated behind the farmgate).

OPINION: Dairy farmers are doing it tough and the latest Global Dairy Trade auction results point to tougher times ahead.

OPINION: Farmer lobby Groundswell is mobilising farmers against the requirement to have freshwater farm plans.

Animal rights group SAFE For Animals is claiming that the days of winter grazing and colony cages should be numbered.

OPINION: UK contractors are coming to the aid of their New Zealand counterparts.

OPINION: Milking It isn't a climate change denier, although this piece will no doubt bring that claim from the usual climate crusaders.

OPINION: While authorities in New Zealand take their time to decide if a feed supplement promising to slash a cow's methane output should enter the New Zealand market, other countries are giving the green light to farmers to use it.

OPINION: The elevation of former Feds leader Andrew Hoggard to number 5 on the ACT Party list puts the Manawatū farmer in pole position to be in a National/ACT cabinet, post-election.

OPINION: Is it time for the Government to re-look at regulations pertaining to the sale of raw milk?