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Dairy prices drop to new 3-year low in overnight auction

Prices of dairy products fell for the third straight sale in Fonterra's overnight auction, reaching a new three-year low as China's slowdown and euro-zone uncertainty weighed on commodities.

Milk waste leaves big carbon footprint

Waste milk creates a carbon footprint equivalent to thousands of car exhausts, claims a study that highlights the environmental costs of inefficient farming and the aggressive marketing of supermarket food.British scientists have...

Canterbury creams dairying honours

Quake-affected Canterbury became the first region to scoop all three top awards at the annual Dairy Industry Awards on Saturday night.Enda and Sarah Hawe won the Sharemilker/Equity Farmer of the Year, Mick O'Connor was top farm...

Dairy herds boom, sheep numbers keep falling

Around 250,000 more dairy cattle are grazing New Zealand paddocks than in mid-2010, but sheep numbers have dropped by over a million, figures show. Partly driven by higher milk solid payouts, the country now has more than six million...

Climate for worldwide change

Grand international schemes to fight global warming are giving way to smaller-scale direct action, reports Peter Huck Ouarazazate, a city in southern Morocco near the Atlas Mountains, is famous mostly as a movie location ever since...

Fonterra execs come out swinging on competitors' tactics

Fonterra Cooperative Group executives have rubbished a Deloitte report for local dairy industry competitors that claims it charges up to 50 cents a kilogram too much to supply them milk, accusing them of trying to bog down the cooperative...

NZ emissions action gets cool response

Yes, New Zealand does have an Emissions Trading Scheme, albeit one celebrated as much in the breach as the observance, given that it excludes agriculture - which produces 49 per cent of New Zealand's emissions as methane and nitrous...