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dairy farming

BusinessJune 9

Dairy farmers support levy in record strong vote

Record support has been given by dairy farmers for continuing their annual milk solids levy to fund ongoing research and development, environmental work and other industry initiatives.
BusinessJuly 24

Dairy scheme's public investment aim

A new dairy investment targeting farm-by-farm acquisition has been launched.
South OtagoMay 20

Mayor says dairying workers 'abused'

Clutha Mayor Bryan Cadogan has accused the dairy industry of ''abusing'' young workers.
Mayor says dairying workers 'abused'
Mayor says dairying workers 'abused'
NewsSeptember 11

Warning on effluent as dairy operations fined

Ongoing dairy effluent spills have degraded Otago rivers and will have a severe long-term impact on catchments, Environment Court judge Jeff Smith says.
NewsSeptember 4

Costly discharge for Waianakarua farmers

Dairy farming couple Kelly Raymond Campbell and Morgan Lyndsay Johnson and their company Dairy Success Ltd were fined about $30,000 in the Dunedin District Court yesterday for effluent ponding on their Waianakarua farm in December 2011.
BusinessJune 27

Positive outlook for dairy demand

While the short-term global dairy outlook is bearish with markets in a down cycle, recovery can be expected from early next year, Rabobank senior analyst Michael Harvey says.
Positive outlook for dairy demand
Positive outlook for dairy demand
South OtagoJune 25

Dairy farmers deny breach

Hiring a company to pump and spread effluent from a dairy pond does not make farmers liable for any ponding that might result, counsel for dairy farmers Eric and Daniel Gordon say.
OpinionJune 19

Dairying should play by the rules

Nick Loughnan laments the dirty state of Central Otago roads and blames the transportation of dairy cows.
NewsMay 14

Sharemilkers come third

Otago Sharemilker-Equity Farmer of the Year winners James and Helen Hartshorne have been awarded third place in the national final.
NewsMay 10

Council warns dairy farmers

Dairy farmers need to set up their effluent systems correctly and check them regularly to avoid prosecution, the Otago Regional Council warns.
Council warns dairy farmers
Council warns dairy farmers
BusinessMarch 8

Key 'debt-free' acquisition

Debt-free dairy farm acquisition is the key to smoothing out volatility of global milk prices and keeping would-be investors in quarterly dividends, a small group of southern investors was told yesterday.
Key 'debt-free' acquisition
Key 'debt-free' acquisition
BusinessDecember 23

Abundance of milk for early next year

Dairy supply is expected to be abundant through early 2012 as the southern hemisphere works to clear the results of a strong season and milk production continues to outpace demand in the northern hemisphere.
EditorialMay 25

A success story at a price

The New Zealand economy would be in a parlous state were it not for the thriving dairy industry. It has taken many decades for our milk farmers to reach this level of global success, millions upon millions of dollars invested in research and new product development, and a vast amount of capital.
SouthlandMay 18

Warning for dairy farmers

Environment Southland has "had a gutsful" of non-compliance by dairy farmers in the region.
BusinessSeptember 20

Crafars still in limbo over eviction

A judge has rejected the Crafar family's legal bid to immediately strike out efforts to have it evicted from its Reporoa farm.
North OtagoSeptember 7

Effluent discharges prove costly

Two dairy farms have to pay a total of $46,500 for illegal discharges of dairy effluent, penalties imposed in the Oamaru District Court yesterday.
NationalAugust 15

Dairy industry starts publicity campaign

The dairy industry is going on the offensive with an advertising campaign to bridge a lack of understanding from urban New Zealand and remind people of the sector's economic role.
BusinessMay 17

Milk price offsets lower production

A high milk price offsetting below-target production has allowed South American dairy farmer New Zealand Farming Systems Uruguay to reaffirm earlier financial guidelines of an expected full-year loss on earnings before interest and tax of up to $NZ14 million.
BusinessApril 17

Offshore ownership of land triggers concerns

Growing foreign interest in buying New Zealand farmland raises nationally significant issues about who benefits and the money trail, a leading primary sector academic says.
BusinessApril 5

Investors still needed for dairy factory

Backers of a proposed dairy factory near Gore are running out of time to secure capital for building to be completed in time for the 2011-12 season.
North OtagoMarch 20

Minister rejects effluent discharge hearing delay bid

A move by three companies wanting to develop dairy farms in the Omarama and Ohau areas to delay a Government-appointed board of inquiry dealing with the effluent discharges has been rejected by Minister for the Environment Nick Smith.
CanterburyMarch 16

No appeals filed yet over dairy factory

No appeals have been received on the resource consents granted for the proposed $90 million Oceania Dairy milk-processing plant near Glenavy, with the appeal period ending this week.
No appeals filed yet over dairy factory
No appeals filed yet over dairy factory
NewsFebruary 26

EDS to appeal 'cubicle' farm consents

An Auckland-based "green" lobby, the Environmental Defence Society (EDS), says it will file proceedings in the High Court at Timaru next week challenging resource consents for three "cubicle" dairy farms in the Mackenzie Basin.