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Good news for New Zealand dairy farmers – whole milk and skim milk powder prices rose in the overnight Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction.

Over the past 12 months, Fonterra Oceania has launched a range of new dairy products in Australia and New Zealand.

OPINION: This month, the government announced a pause to the rollout of the national farm plan system.

WorkSafe is recommending the dairy industry reassess its use of slide pulsators, following a recent death in a Waikato milking shed.

OPINION: Good on Miraka for eschewing electric power for its future tankers, opting for the much more practical heavy-vehicle ‘green’ choice, hydrogen, putting NZ’s first H-powered tanker on the road.

The 63rd National Holstein Friesian Bull sale this week (September 18) will mark 54 consecutive years that retiring Kerepehi breeder Michael Lynch has entered and sold his bulls at the event.

DairyNZ chair elect Tracy Brown says working together to create and implement sensible, affordable and enduring policy has never been more important.

A hundred primary schools across New Zealand are now better resourced to teach their students about food and farming after winning ‘George the Farmer’ book sets in a recent competition run by rural lender, Rabobank.

83 students from the Massey University School of Agriculture and Environment were awarded close to $400,000 in scholarships at a recent awards evening.

Zespri, in collaboration with ANL/CMA CGM, has initiated a feasibility study to investigate the potential for a low-emissions shipping corridor from Tauranga to Zeebrugge, Belgium, through the Panama Canal.