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- A2 Milk outperforms once again
- The realities of Mycoplasma bovis
- Dairy with ‘pasture-plus’
- the coming dairy revolution
- The mysteries of grass-fed milk
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- The green grass of Taranaki
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- Synlait purchases strategic blending and canning assets
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- Alternatives to dairy in New Zealand – the challenges are under-estimated
- Fifty years of Canterbury farming revolution
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- Dairy outlook cools down
- Synlait and The a2 Milk Company strengthen their alliance
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- The search for new agri-food markets
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- Bellamy’s organic infant formula derails in China
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- Dairy volatility has not gone away
- China’s infant formula market continues to evolve
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- The Rise of China’s Agriculture
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- Shocks versus structural change is the big dairy question
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- Back to the drawing board for Fonterra governance
- Dairy price estimates are consistently wrong
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Category Archives: Dairy
Commodities and cost savings drive Fonterra’s performance
Fonterra’s 2017 financial performance was a solid result, despite profits dropping 11 percent to $745 million. The main cause of the drop was the higher farm-gate price of milk supplied by its farmers, which is a cost to corporate Fonterra. … Continue reading
Posted in Agribusiness, China, Dairy, Fonterra
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The wheat and chaff of synthetic food
It has become fashionable for agri-food commentators to talk of disruptive change. In particular, in recent months there has been much talk about industry disruption that will supposedly occur from synthetic food, with much of that grown in a laboratory. … Continue reading
Posted in Agribusiness, Dairy, Meat Industry
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Composting barns can be a dairy solution
There is increasing recognition that 24/7 paddock wintering of cows is not the way forward for New Zealand dairy. The challenge is to find solutions. These solutions need to achieve good environmental management, they need to be animal friendly, and … Continue reading
Posted in Agribusiness, Dairy, Fonterra, Land and water
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A2 Milk outperforms once again
The a2 Milk Company (ATM) took a big step forward with its 2016/17 results which were released on 23 August. Sales were up 56 percent from the previous year to $549 million, and post-tax profits tripled to $NZ90 million. The … Continue reading
Posted in A1 and A2 milk, Dairy, Fonterra, Synlait
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The realities of Mycoplasma bovis
The recent outbreak of Mycoplasma bovis in South Canterbury has come as a shock to all dairy farmers. It is a disease that most New Zealand farmers had never heard of. Regardless of whether or not the current outbreak can … Continue reading
Posted in Agribusiness, Dairy
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Dairy with ‘pasture-plus’
A key and consistent message over many years from DairyNZ to its 12,000 farmer members has been the importance of optimising the use of grass. Aligned to this, has been an ongoing negativity to non-pasture supplementation. I know of no-one … Continue reading
Posted in Dairy
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the coming dairy revolution
The attached article NZH_Agribusiness_July2017_4 was commissioned by The New Zealand Herald and published 20 July 2017 within their annual Agribusiness Supplement. The NZ Herald is the main Auckland newspaper. Accordingly, the article was written for a largely urban audience.
Posted in Agribusiness, China, Dairy, Uncategorized
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