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Keeping abreast of research
Like it or not, it’s another marketing coup for Lewis Road Creamery. The owner of the hugely popular chocolate milk is making headlines again. In a bid to raise money for breast cancer research, Lewis...
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Going gaga
She wears skin and meat every day, is known as Lady Gaga and is the top performer among her peers. A cow named Lady Gaga has taken home the top prize from the German Holstein Show in Oldenburg, making...
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Plan to regain the driving seat, regardless of payout
Fonterra has announced a best-guess payout forecast of $5.25/kgMS for 2015-16. The bigger surprise was the final payout for 2014-15 of $4.40/kgMS, down another 10 cents. Let’s look at what that could...
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Struggling Kiwis forking out
Fonterra's 10,500 farmer shareholders got hit by a double whammy last week. The co-op’s Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction was down for the eight successive time and, worryingly, whole milk powder prices...
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Common sense first
NZ First deserves a pat on the back for defending farmers against the furore over high milk prices. Blaming farmers for the price of milk is wrong when supermarkets are creaming profits, says New...
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Shearer has it wrong
To compare the retail prices of Coke and milk and say the Coke was more affordable than milk is misleading. Opposition MP David Shearer seems to have forgotten how the milk is produced: farmers are up...
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Falling on swords bloodies the ground
Will the acceptance of a pay cut by Fonterra boss Theo Spierings solve the dairy industry’s problems? as suggested by Labour primary industries spokesmen Damien O’Connor. And do Fonterra directors need...
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Dwarf cows take the heat
Dwarf cows could be India’s answer to climate change. Worsening heat, fodder shortages and the threat of drought are forcing many hard-hit dairy farmers in southern India to reduce their herds; they...
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Chocolate milk goes south anyway
Some South Island retailers are going to great lengths to sell Lewis Road Creamery’s famous chocolate milk. According to reports, two Christchurch dairies have smuggled the country’s most sought-after...
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Reports of our death exaggerated
Setting aside the hype and misinformation broadcast on the nightly news, New Zealand’s live export trade has successfully resumed: after 15 days at sea the MV Nada disembarked its cargo of sheep and...
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Rumour mongers stay with it
Developers of a big dairy conversion near Taupo are doing everything by the book – consulting local councils and iwi, sticking strictly to environmental guidelines and transparently communicating with...
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Stare hard at this opportunity
The end of the tunnel is still not showing any light for farmers. Six months ago they were told to expect a bounce-back in global dairy prices about now. But last week’s Global Dairy Trade results show...
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From prosperity to austerity onfarm
We've gone from prosperity to austerity in the last 12 months. Though it’s been tough, dairy farmers can take pleasure in telling the public what they have been investing in the environment. In...
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Clear commitment
This is just the start of our industry trying to understand and quantify how much farmers are investing in environmental actions. We are also collating actions from our Sustainable Milk Plan projects...
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Happy birthday you old bovines
Two retired cows in Waikato have reached extraordinary birthdays. Blackstar Trace and Bear Blanche have reached 21- an extraordinary age for a cow, says Charbelle Farm owner Dyanne Osborne. It’s double...
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Mainlanders’ treat in store
The wait is over for South Island: the chocolate drink that has taken the North Island by storm will soon arrive. Lewis Road Creamery says it will be in South Island stores from September 2, the same...
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Courage to dangle?
When the Shanghai Stock Exchange plunged last month, Chinese authorities moved quickly to suspend trade. With Fonterra’s Global Dairy Trade auction suffering 10 straight price drops some industry...
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Now get back to work
It's not our preference to kick someone when they are down. But Fonterra’s appearance at Tauranga District Court relating to six illegal wastewater discharges at its Edgecumbe plant leaves us little...
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More help to save Earth
A food supplement could reduce cows’ farting and burping by nearly one third and help save the planet. At least one third of all emissions of methane, a potent greenhouse gas, comes from cows, goats,...
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A not-so-ill wind
Russia's ban on the West’s dairy, meat, fruit and vegetables is heaping high the ‘tables’ of that country’s nine million cows. From last week the cows have been dining on brie, camembert and chorizo --...
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