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The Zanda McDonald Award, has revealed their shortlist of 10 young professionals from Australia and New Zealand for the 2024 award.

A barn housing 1000 Holstein Friesian cows won the 2023 Waikato Regional Supreme Award at the Ballance Farm Environment Awards, for its commitment to productive genetic gain and precision effluent management. Sheryl Haitana visited the three siblings who are the fifth generation of the Singh family dairy farming in New Zealand.

Checking the eDNA of water in the river crossing through their farm has had a positive impact, Penelope Drysdale writes.

Dairy farmers wishing to phase out bobby calves will need to raise animals that will compete with other land uses. Sheryl Haitana reports.

Calving ease and the animal’s value through the chain to end market are major considerations in the drive to reduce bobby calf numbers for Waikato’s Owl Farm. Louise Hanlon reports.

Using proven beef sires over dairy cows adds value to surplus calves, AgFirst Agribusiness Consultant Bob Thomson writes.

Rural Women New Zealand (RWNZ) has announced the establishment of the Cynthia Collier grant of $5000 to assist projects and initiatives that support rural communities.

West Coast dairy herd manager Chloe Payne has scored a huge following in the social media world with her Instagram pictures of her cows. By Anne Hardie.

Our tenacious team of journalists love nothing more than to get their teeth into a good challenge. The challenge this issue is around “What to do with a problem like Bobby?”

The aim of a pasture-raised veal system is to give calves great lives and keep rearing as close to nature as possible, Anne Lee writes.

New Zealand Dairy Exporter has undergone a generational shift with a move to new owners.

Keeping calves with mum until weaning is part of a study of alternative rearing systems. By Anne Lee.