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Latest enrich magazine
There’s a lot going on on-farm and with calving underway, our focus is on setting you up for a successful season and providing you with advice to help find the right solutions for your farm.
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Assessing Your Milk Cooling Performance
The new Ministry for Primary Industries milk cooling standards that came into effect on 1 June 2018 state that milk must meet the following criteria.
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South Island TSR Regional Report - July 2018
It wasn’t too long ago farming in Southland was dominated by sheep, beef and deer farming. But the dairy boom soon led to growth in dairy farming and associated processing capability in the region. The Fonterra plant in Edendale is the largest raw milk powder plant in the world.
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North Island TSR Regional Report - July 2018
This year marks 20 years since the Farm Source store in Taupo began trading. Back then it was known as RD1 and the level of customer demand saw the need to relocate the store in 2011 to a site twice the size of the original store.
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GEA FIL Colostrum Marking System
Having a clear and robust animal marking system at calving is key to preventing costly contamination. It is crucial to ensure your whole team, including relief staff, are using the same marking system. Through this short video we show you three simple strategies using FIL markers.
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Get grass-ready calves in seven weeks
The secret to growing bigger grass-ready calves earlier is getting them off to a good start. This means having warm, healthy calves that have consumed colostrum in the first 18 hours along with a specific solid feed that will both grow the calf and the rumen from day one.
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Inaugural winners of new National Dairy Award announced
The inaugural winners of the New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards Fonterra Farm Source Responsible Dairying Award are considered leaders within the dairy industry, in all areas of sustainability, business and farm management, as well as in the way they give back to the industry and community.
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How to get your cows off to a good start
Did you know a strong peak milk performance starts in the rumen? With a considered nutritional regime during the transition period, and a focus on starch during early lactation, you can be sure your herd is set up for a great season.
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Marley competition leads to grass to glass journey to Sri Lanka
Sri Lankans consume a staggering 2.4 billion glasses of our milk each year and our relationship with them goes back a long way.
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Spring start - getting it right is critical
Last issue, we looked at feed wedges and pasture management. This month we focus on the critical early spring period when average pasture cover (APC) at calving will determine how well cows are fed for the following two months. For most farms the APC target at calving is 2,200-2,400kg DM/ha but it will depend on calving rate and supplement use.
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The essential ingredient in your dairy
Since its launch in 1978, Rumensin has been one of the essential ingredients for New Zealand’s dairy industry.
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Fonterra offers Waikato parents a helping hand
Anyone with kids knows parenting can be hard, and if you’ve never been shown ways to deal with kids playing up, how do you learn? That’s a problem Senior Constable Jackie Drayson was keen to solve.
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Square thinking pays off
Thinking “inside the square” is putting more milk in the vat and keeping cows in better condition for farmers using innovative high-tech rubberware developed in New Zealand.
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Make sure you have your say on the Zero Carbon Bill
The Zero Carbon Bill is now open for public consultation and it’s vital for the dairy industry to make its voice heard.
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Extra vigilance required this calving season
A year ago, many of you may not have heard of Mycoplasma bovis. Now it will have changed the way you think about on-farm biosecurity.
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