A team led by DairyNZ received a Primary Industries Award at the Kudos Awards last week.  DairyNZ received the award for its Improving Dairy Fertility Genetics research project. The project determined new ways to select inherently fertile cows and has … Continue reading →

Three agribusiness leaders, with over 70 years’ combined service to co-operatives, were recognised at last night’s Cooperative Business NZ awards. Former Fonterra chairman John Monaghan, who stepped down from the co-op this month, academic Nicola Shadbolt, who served as a … Continue reading →

Lely offerings for the future Dutch robotic specialist Lely launched a new farm management application called Horizon at its recent Future Farm Days 2020. Designed to connect data from a range of on-farm equipment and suppliers into one management system, … Continue reading →

Dairy goat milk processors, looking to increase their supplier numbers, are helping to drive interest among farmers in New Zealand’s growing goat milk industry. Public awareness of the nutritional benefits of goat milk and the lower environmental footprint of dairy … Continue reading →

Fonterra says the launch of its carbonzero-certified speciality milks signals that it is serious about acting on sustainability. Anchor’s range of specialty milks is being certified as Toitū carbonzero this month as part of the co-op’s commitment to reduce its … Continue reading →

Livestock Improvement Corporation (LIC) says their investment in genomic science has increased returns for dairy farmers. The company have invested more than $78 million in genomic science and genome sequencing technology over the last ten years. LIC general manager NZ … Continue reading →

Swap Stockfoods has operated in the South Island for a while now but has opened a new site in Christchurch that will give more stockfood options to farmers in Canterbury, the West Coast and further north.  This site complements J … Continue reading →

Taupo-based Maori dairy company Miraka took the top honours at this year’s Biosecurity Awards.   The company scooped both the industry award and the supreme award in the competition for its Te Ara Miraka programme, which boosted biosecurity awareness and … Continue reading →

Southland drystock farmer Bernadette Hunt has scooped the 2020 primary industry’s leadership award. The award, presented last night at the 2020 Primary Industries conference dinner in Wellington, recognises Hunt’s commitment to advocating for farming, particularly given her efforts to highlight … Continue reading →

The chief executive-elect of Yili-owned Westland Milk Products Richard Wyeth says he’s looking forward to the challenge of running the company. For the past eleven years Wyeth has headed up Miraka, the highly successful Maori-owned dairy company based in Taupo. … Continue reading →