Hi-tech cow dung-busting scheme hits the fan
William Mook’s hi-tech project was going to solve the dairy industry’s effluent problems and make investors millions.
Cattle disease bill could be $30k per farm
Farmers could end up paying $30,000 each on average to help cover the cost of eradicating mycoplasma bovis.
Reduction in farms converted to dairy
Dairy’s meteoric rise in Canterbury may be over as applications for new dairy farming conversions in Canterbury drop to their lowest point in a decade, new figures show. By: CHARLIE MITCHELL
Peak cow? Dairy farming slows in Canterbury
Dairy’s meteoric rise in Canterbury may be over as applications for new dairy farming conversions in Canterbury drop to their lowest point in a decade, new figures show. By: CHARLIE MITCHELL
Cow cubicle dairy farm tested in Canterbury
Warehousing cows in cubicles is being tested in Canterbury in a bid to stop effluent polluting waterways. By: Conan Young
Dairy downturn will have 'massive' effect on South Island economy
Christchurch will be the hardest hit of any New Zealand city by the dairy downturn, according to a new survey.
Fonterra chair Wilson says dairy prices now at level to hit milk price forecast
Fonterra Cooperative Group chairman John Wilson said dairy prices need to be trading around the level of this week’s GlobalDairyTrade auction to hit the current seasonal forecast of $4.70 per kilogram of milksolids.
Proud to be a #dairy farmer
Final speech of Willy Leferink, Federated Farmers Dairy chairperson, to Federated Farmers 2014 Dairy Industry Annual General Meeting, Palmerston North.
#Milk Prices Fall as Competition for China Market Heats Up
Global milk prices are falling sharply as producers in New Zealand, Europe and the U.S. ramp up exports to feed the Chinese market.
Willy Leferink has some common sense advice for #dairy farmers: run your business better than the legal standards and you won't be a target
Some politicians and lobby groups hell-bent on making farming a feature of the 2014 general election will be taking names and counting numbers.