Tararua dairy farmers out to curb nitrate leaching and negative whispers
Tararua dairy farmers are turning over a new leaf to reduce their environmental footprint.
Can plantain be the saviour?
A major initiative launched in the Tararua district seeks to reduce nitrate leaching on 135 dairy farms which can’t get consent for their operations. The hope is to achieve this with a single forage – plantain.
Patoka property in Hawke's Bay not linked to latest mycoplasma bovis find
Stock found with incurable cattle disease mycoplasma bovis on a North Wairarapa farm had previously been on a farm in Hawke’s Bay, but not the farm where infected stock were discovered late last year.
Departing Fonterra chief executive has taken the company forward
Fonterra’s departing chief executive Theo Spierings has been a strong leader, Tararua Federated Farmer’s president Neil Filer says.
Rain, rain and more rain – where is spring farmers ask?
Two days of dry weather has done little to dry out wet Manawatū/Rangitīkei paddocks.
By: JILL GALLOWAY
Source: Stuff
Once-a-day milking lets family come first for Norsewood dairy farmers
A Norsewood dairy farming couple is making sure their business is family friendly. Kate Taylor visited to find out how.
Dairy industry losing billions of dollars to trade barriers
Billions of dollars are being being lost each year to the New Zealand dairy industry through trade barriers. BY GERALD PIDDOCK.
$8 billion to help provinces catch 'a big fish'
South Waikato mayor Neil Sinclair likens growing the economy of a rural region to deep sea fishing: «You have your line, your hooks and your bait and you just hope you can catch something other than nibbles.»
#Fonterra outlines case for milk dryer
A milk tanker parked outside a Palmerston North hotel marked the start of a three-day hearing into Fonterra’s $200 million plant expansion plans.