Visitors flock to farms
15 November 2019
Thirteen farms hosted more than 7000 people on Fonterra’s Open Gates day last Sunday.
DAIRY ARCHIVES
AT THE GRASSROOTS | Let's be nicer to our dairy farmers
15 November 2019
I have been on the receiving end of dairy farmers most of my life, well, their product that is because milk processing has been the backbone of my career.
Expo effort boosts milk sales
14 November 2019
China's largest import expo has provided a platform for a Chinese-owned New Zealand milk company to build its fresh milk sales and launch a new high-value dairy product.
Farmers make more use of FSF
14 November 2019
Lower unit prices have attracted greater use by dairy farmers of the Fonterra Shareholders Fund, to some extent replacing disillusioned institutional investors, fund chairman John Shewan says.
Best water quality efforts not keeping up
13 November 2019
More intensive land-use has outweighed efforts to prevent loss of nitrogen and phosphorus, a national science challenge has found.
Nanotech wins big grant
12 November 2019
Applying nanotechnology to agriculture to increase productivity and reduce environmental impacts has secured a Lincoln University team a $1 million grant from the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s Endeavour Fund.
They have sanity, price and peace
12 November 2019
Buying your own farm requires a great deal of hard work, financial sacrifice and often lifestyle sacrifices too. It also requires immense fortitude to navigate and tough out the hard, lean times. Ross Nolly reports.
Effluent expo feeds farmers’ brains
11 November 2019
Farmers will get something for the top two inches and something for the back end of their stock later this month at the annual Effluent and Environment Expo.
Dairy farmers can Plant for Good
11 November 2019
Fonterra has teamed up with a nationwide group of ecological consultants to offer a Plant for Good programme to deliver a better outcome from farm tree planting.
Farmers happy with Nait changes
11 November 2019
Changes to the national animal identification and tracing legislation are logical and workable, Federated Farmers says.
