Displaying items by tag: animal welfare

Rural leader Mark Hooper has been appointed as an independent director to the NZPork board, bringing extensive farming, governance and advocacy experience to the role.

Climate, nature and animal wellbeing make up Fonterra's refreshed sustainability roadmap released last week.

B+LNZ's Wormwise veterinarian Mary Bowron has won the Best Sheep and Beef Vet of the Year Award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to New Zealand’s sheep and beef sector.

With lambing underway in many regions, Beef + Lamb New Zealand is encouraging farmers to put together a wellequipped lambing kit to help minimise lamb losses, particularly in bad weather.

OPINION: Dairy farmers know better than anyone that change is constant.

A Palmerston North shearer has been sentenced to six months' community detention and 12 months' supervision after being found to have physically abused three lambs while shearing them.

Rearing facilities should be set up and maintained well to ensure calves stay healthy.

On a farm in Tikorangi, North Taranaki, Brent Stevenson is sharemilking 1,400 cows.

An Auckland man has been fined $6,000 for offering to sell illegally slaughtered pigs.

A Rangitikei farmer has been indefinitely banned from owning animals and sentenced to serve 9 months and 3 weeks’ home detention following animal welfare failures that caused the death of more than 140 animals.