Dairy
Danone – one of the world’s leading food companies – has announced the official opening of its new state-of-the-art Nutricia...
New research means that you can now breed dairy and beef animals that have a greater resistance to a tuberculosis...
Insufficient farm infrastructure is one of the main causes of lameness in dairy herds. This could be anything from poor...
The breeding season is fast approaching and preparation is a key component to a successful breeding season. What some farmers...
Bruce Thompson and his father Ian don’t know themselves since the installation of their new 40-bale Waikato rotary parlour. Bruce...
Feeding antibiotic milk or ‘waste milk’ can potentially cause antibiotic resistance if fed to young dairy calves. Waste milk is...
“I feel that lameness needs to be brought up on the agenda. There is a lot of talk about carbon...
With milder conditions in store for this week, farmers should consider turning out some older calves to grass. Early turnout...
Determination is key to getting the fertiliser out in these difficult spreading conditions. The second round is fast approaching and...
Cryptosporidiosis or ‘crypto’ is the leading cause of scour in young calves and its prevalence is becoming more and more...
“Many farmers look at improving their grassland management as a negative to having robots, which is more of a positive...
Achieve higher conception rates this breeding season through close monitoring of your herd’s body condition score (BCS). The BCS of...
Get priority access to the next generation of genetics through the national dairy breeding programme – Gene Ireland. Gene Ireland,...
In a recent Twitter statement – the newly appointed CEO of Fonterra – Miles Hurrell confirmed that “reducing Fonterra’s debt...
In just five years this farm was transformed from a beef, sheep and tillage enterprise, to milking over 200 cows...
Arla Foods has set “ambitious targets” to reduce its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 30% per kilo of milk by...
Little by little progress is being made – across the country – on soil fertility levels. Speaking at the precise...
Contract rearing is an up and coming epidemic within the agricultural industry. A vital part of entering into a contract...
