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Showing the first 100 from a total of 529 Dairy articles, sorted by Publication Date

Effluent focus beings to pay off
08-09-2010 | Not Specified
Dairy | Country-Wide Southern

The dairy industry's focus on improving effluent consent compliance in Canterbury is beginning to pay off. » Read full article

When two years turned into 35
08-09-2010 | Not Specified
Dairy | Country-Wide Southern

After 35 years with Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC), Christchurch herd test field technician Andrew Garrod says he has no plans to retire. » Read full article

US grass potential barely tapped
01-09-2010 | Richard Rennie
Business | Country-Wide Northern

The hunger for pastoral dairy systems is growing in the United States as producers consider options to free themselves from the high cost of grain-sourced confinement feed systems. » Read full article

Chile takes its cue from NZ-based systems
01-09-2010 | Richard Rennie
Business | Country-Wide Northern

The Osorno district 500km south of Santiago provides perhaps the closest comparison to New Zealand in terms of geography, latitude and potential for emulating Kiwi grass-based dairy systems. » Read full article

Sleeping giant wakes up in Brazil
01-09-2010 | Richard Rennie
Business | Country-Wide Northern

While Chile may offer the lure of New Zealand-type landscapes and pastoral settings, Brazil's burgeoning dairy industry has the opportunity to deliver serious pastoral scale on a level almost untapped at present. » Read full article

Busy family finds time for environment
01-09-2010 | Jackie Harrigan
Dairy | Country-Wide Northern

The Lovells of Tongaporutu, in north Taranaki, are one busy family. As well as milking 170 cows and rearing calves and young stock, Bruce and Maxine have eight children and have found time during the past 10 years to plant 5000 trees along the banks of the Hutiwai and Tongaporutu rivers. » Read full article

‘We just kept planting …’
01-09-2010 | Not Specified
Dairy | Country-Wide Northern

The family became involved in planting their riparian margins in the 1997-98 season when they bought 11ha bare of trees. » Read full article

Automated teat treatment arrives
01-09-2010 | Tim McVeagh
Technology | Country-Wide Northern

The ADF system was developed in Britain to automate teat dipping and cluster flushing; two mastitis-control practices more common in Britain than New Zealand. » Read full article

What the ADF system claims to do
01-09-2010 | Not Specified
Technology | Country-Wide Northern

Those promoting the Automated Dipping and Flushing system make several claims. One is more efficient teat spraying/dipping. » Read full article

First NZ installation
01-09-2010 | Not Specified
Technology | Country-Wide Northern

The first southern hemisphere ADF installation was completed in March this year at Steve and Mary Barr's Arran Trust 44-bail rotary dairy, near Feilding. » Read full article


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