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Mandy Carter: Change desperately needed in dairy industry
COMMENT: The dairy industry does not want the cheese-eating world-wide public to know about its disposal of unwanted bobby calves, writes Mandy Carter,
COMMENT: The dairy industry does not want the cheese-eating world-wide public to know about its disposal of unwanted bobby calves, writes Mandy Carter,
Failed Crafar farms bidder sentenced in Hong Kong for fraud associated with her attempt to buy the North Island properties.
Alarm after tuberculosis-positive cow discovered at his farm.
Fonterra chairman John Wilson has linked Theo Spierings' resignation rumours to next week's farmer vote on changes.
Heartland Bank has told investors it is monitoring the dairy sector "with close attention".
Man caught mistreating bobby calves, after animal welfare groups released video, pleads guilty to charges.
Fonterra's farmers will vote next week on a raft of changes to the way the co-operative is governed.
Nearly 200 jobs at AgResearch will be relocated to Lincoln and Palmerston North with the Government today signing off on a new $133 million reconfiguration.
Former president of Wanganui Federated Farmers says dairy farming is responsible for 80 per cent of the degradation of New Zealand waterways.
The milk price of $4.25 per kg remains well below DairyNZ's $5.25 per kg estimate of breakeven.
Zespri reported a bumper year for 2015/6, with the biggest-ever total return to growers.
COMMENT: The Government should be proactive and appoint an independent Commissioner for Animal Welfare, writes Catriona MacLennan. Not only to prosecute animal cruelty, but also comprehensive monitoring of animal welfare.
Australian dairy farmers want the government's help in gaining security around milk prices.
The milk price futures contracts will be launched on May 27, the NZX announced late last week.
The NZX is launching new dairy futures and options contracts as a way to lessen the volatility in milk prices.
Dairy farmers, facing volatile prices, must take advantage of advances in genetics, forages and labour-saving technologies, writes Mark Hiddleston
It's not only NZ dairy farmers unhappy about farm gate prices.
Dairy prices ended the 2015/6 season on a firm note with the GlobalDairyTrade price index rising by 2.6 per cent at this morning's auction.
Fonterra says part of forecast final dividend will be moved up to ease low-price pain.
A mild improvement in dairy prices is expected at this week's GlobalDairyTrade auction - the last for the 2015-16 season.
Fonterra has enlisted the help of Richie McCaw to help show the co-operative is not a "faceless corporate".
Expensive farm equipment is sitting idle on farms around the country. MachineryLink Sharing wants to change that.
New Zealand's largest meat processor will hold a special meeting of shareholders on its planned tie up with China's Shanghai Maling Aquarius.
Nearly all dairy cattle on more than 11,000 farms are now fenced off from waterways, a new report shows -- but an environmental group fears the full picture isn't being shown.
Gary Helou, managing director of Australia's biggest dairy company has resigned after the company lodged its second major earnings downgrade of this year.
Mystery has enveloped the ginseng industry-the biggest customer for a small Canadian county has disappeared.
Workers weren't allowed time off, including a pregnant woman who was told she'd be laid off if she took maternity leave.
The trend towards organic produce means the US is now importing animal feed from Romania.