Dairy
GDT analysis: Weak Chinese demand continues to weigh on dairy trade
New Zealand bank ASB has cut its 2015/2016 milk price forecast to $5.00/kg after the Global Dairy Trade tumbled for...
New Zealand
Dairy
How one dairy farmer milks 90 cows but owns no land
Noel McCall is a dairy farmer with a difference; he’s milking 90 cows but he owns none of the land...
Dairy
Number of farmers taking guaranteed milk price from Fonterra doubles
Fonterra has set its June Guaranteed Milk Price (GMP) at $5.25/kgMS; the same price as the opening 2015/16 forecast Farmgate Milk...
Dairy
Slowdown in Kiwi dairy output growth forecast
A report released by the New Zealand Department of Primary Industries was published last week, and has forecast a short...
Dairy
'High dairy production levels in New Zealand will take time to be absorbed'
Dairy prices in New Zealand are expected to remain weak for the coming months, before beginning to ‘recover in earnest’...
Sheep
Amazing video of farmer herding thousands of sheep from the sky
It’s like a scene from the Lion King as a New Zealand farmer uses a drone to not only film his...
Sheep
EU sheepmeat imports up 15% from 2014
EU sheepmeat imports increased by 15% from last year in the first quarter of 2015, according to Eblex, the organisations...
Dairy
Fonterra offers guaranteed milk price contracts
Following its recent announcement of the 2015/16 forecast Farmgate Milk Price, applications are now open for Fonterra farmers to lock...
Dairy
New Zealand dairy farmers braced for $150,000 income drop
DairyNZ is ramping up its support to dairy farmers following the announcement today by Fonterra of an opening forecast Farmgate...
Dairy
Global Dairy Trade down for sixth consecutive time
The Global Dairy Trade has fallen for the sixth consecutive time, down 4.3%. The latest auction comes on the back...
Dairy
Fonterra revises downwards its farmgate milk price
Fonterra Co-operative has reduced its forecast Farmgate Milk Price for the 2014/15 season to $4.40 per kgMS. Chairman John Wilson...
Sheep
Sheepmeat exports in New Zealand and Australia see decline in first quarter
Sheepmeat exports in New Zealand and Australia have seen a decline in exports in the first quarter of 2015 which...
Dairy
New plant to produce enough cheese for 300 million pizzas a year
Fonterra’s newly completed mozzarella plant will create enough mozzarella cheese to top more than 300m pizzas a year, the co-operative...
Dairy
Kiwi bank predicts further cuts to milk prices
New Zealand bank ASB is predicting a gloomy outlook for the dairy sector in the southern hemisphere with further cuts...
World News
New Zealand sheep flock at its lowest level in 70 years
New Zealand had 29.8m sheep last year, the first time since 1943 the country’s sheep flock fell below 30m head....
Dairy
Farming abroad: From car sales to milking cows in New Zealand
Bill Moore from Co. Meath has gone from being a car salesman to being a 50/50 dairy farmer in New...
Dairy
A Kiwi cow has sold for over €13,000 at auction
A dairy cow in New Zealand has sold for NZ$20,000 or €13,285. The six-year old is a friesian and its breeding...
Dairy
1,500 cows to be milked with Lely Astronaut milking robots in New Zealand
Some 1,500 cows in New Zealand are to be milked with Lely Astronaut milking robots, Lely says. The Van Leeuwen Dairy Group...
