Ravensdown has named Tom Wilson as this year’s recipient of the Hugh Williams Memorial Scholarship. The Hugh Williams Memorial Scholarship was founded to commemorate the late Hugh Williams, a Ravensdown director from 1987 to 2000. The scholarship provides $5000 per … Continue reading →

Synlait Milk company co-founder Dr John Penno will receive a honorary doctorate at the 2019 Lincoln University Graduation on May 3. A total of 600 awards will be given out at the ceremony. Acting Vice-Chancellor, Professor Bruce McKenzie said the … Continue reading →

Alex Turnbull, director NZMP marketing, Fonterra, outlines the co-op’s ongoing commitment to adding value to New Zealand’s economy and the global dairy industry. This article is in relation to a recent Situation and Outlook report from New Zealand’s Ministry of … Continue reading →

Runners-up for the Canterbury/North Otago Sharemilker of the Year title are Shaun and Andrea Wise, who contract milk 590 cows for Dairy Holdings on a 134ha Rangitata Island property.  Originally from South Africa, Shaun holds a Bachelor of Accounting Science … Continue reading →

A Buddhist couple whose personal philosophy forbids them owning cows has taken out the Canterbury/North Otago Share Farmer of the Year title. In a category which no longer requires traditional herd ownership but is instead open to anyone self-employed in … Continue reading →

The West Coast may be Westland Milk Products territory but that hasn’t prevented Fonterra from stepping in to help with the cleanup following the torrential rain and flooding of late March. Working under the direction of Federated Farmers as the … Continue reading →

A small organic farm in South Auckland has become the first NZ recipient of DeLavals’ new robotic milking system, the VMSTM V300. Heritage Farm in Karaka milks 165 cows year-round with two new V300 robots, supplying 66,000kgMS annually to Fonterra. … Continue reading →

Proposed law changes to further improve the National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) scheme were unveiled last week by Minister for Biosecurity Damien O’Connor. The NAIT Review, released in 2018, and the Mycoplasma bovis Eradication Programme highlighted significant flaws in the … Continue reading →

DairyNZ has affirmed its commitment to the Dairy Tomorrow initiative which outlines six broad goals for the sector. It is the theme of DairyNZ’s Farmers’ Forums which kicked off last week at Timaru.  DairyNZ director Colin Glass said Dairy Tomorrow … Continue reading →

DairyNZ director Ben Allomes is advocating a paradigm shift in the way the primary sector markets and presents itself as a career. He says all the negative talk about the dairy industry damages the whole primary sector brand and has … Continue reading →