Dairy farmers are focused on doing their bit to improve water quality in New Zealand and have made measurable progress in their environmental performance. DairyNZ’s environment policy manager, Dr Mike Scarsbrook, says the dairy industry is pleased to see a new State of the Environment report being released today to fill […]
TPP deal to free up world dairy trade would reduce volatility DairyNZ chairman John Luxton writes that major TPP players are holding their dairy consumers to ransom The news that the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal has not been agreed because of differences over autos, dairy and intellectual property is no […]
How to Force More Drug Ill-Effects on Billions of People and Make Tons of Money National Health Federation President, Scott Tips, argues against rBGH at the Codex Alimentarius Commission in Geneva. Most people would not think of Geneva, Switzerland as an uncomfortably hot city. But each and every time I’ve been here, it […]
DWN and SealesWinslow deliver nourishing campaign for stressful season Dairy Women’s Network members who have attended the SealesWinslow calf nutrition workshops over the past three months have walked away with a little added extra this year. The organisations partnered with celebrity chef Michael Van de Elzen to create the ‘Nourish’ campaign to develop […]
Posted on July 5, 2015 by Keith Woodford Shares in The a2 Milk Company (coded as ATM on the NZX stock exchange) have increased from 48.5 cents on 29 May to 75 cents at 3 July. The market capitalisation has risen from $330 million to $495 million. Where the shares will go in the next […]
Is this the world’s most dangerous drink? By David Derbyshire David Derbyshire is an award winning freelance environment, science and countryside writer who writes for national UK newspapers and magazines. Once you’ve sampled a glass of raw milk freshly expressed from a cow, the pasteurised pinta delivered to your doorstep seems a pale imitation. Unpasteurised […]
Posted on June 27, 2015 by Keith Woodford Right now, everyone in the New Zealand dairy industry is figuring out how to get through the next 12 months without too much pain. But eventually events will turn and we will be able to think more strategically about where the industry is going. Down on the […]
Review tests leptospirosis vaccination success Massey University scientists have been awarded $480,000 to find out whether the vaccination of dairy cattle against the bacterial disease leptospirosis has been fully effective. Preliminary research suggests perhaps not, and the independent not-for-profit Agricultural and Marketing Research and Development Trust and the Sustainable Farming Fund of the Ministry for […]
China to build giant dairy farm to supply Russia RIA Novosti / Vitaly Timkiv China has started to build a joint Chinese-Russian livestock agricultural complex. A hundred thousand cows are planned to be bred in a project costing one billion Yuan. The farm is being set up in the Chinese city of Mudanjiang with production […]
With milk prices down, the industry needs to focus on the fundamentals of successful dairy production which have given the country its competitive advantage. DairyNZ senior economist Matthew Newman explains. New Zealand is unique amongst developed countries because nearly three quarters of its export earnings are generated from the primary industries of agriculture, horticulture, viticulture, […]