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Articles on Dairy farming
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Milk is never just milk. It’s saturated with meaning, emotion and contradiction, and provokes strong responses in people.
The legal, political and public health consequences of the largest Salmonella outbreak in the US underscore the importance of food safety inspections and disease surveillance.
For many dairy farmers, the solution to their rodent problem isn’t poison – it’s working cats. But at present, there are no tax deductions for their care.
Fewer cows on the farm and a broader range of farming practices, including involvement in the emerging alternative proteins industry, could help New Zealand’s dairy sector remain viable.
A new study finds attitudes to biodiversity changing down on the farm, but there are still perceived barriers to planting what could be productive land in natives.
Only about 61% of dairy farm operators had reported their use of synthetic nitrogen a year after reporting rules came into force.
Dairy farming in New Zealand has intensified by using more supplementary feed. While this boosts production, costs also rise and this ultimately cuts profits - and it adds more harm to the climate.
Researchers looked at the skeletal remains of 40 people, and found evidence of dairy consumption across a wide swathe of early Tibetan society.
Several batches of palm kernel product imported for dairy farms contained certain chemicals above a safe limit – and there’s an ethical quandary in supporting an industry linked with deforestation.
The industry is in the hands of smallholder farmers who struggle to raise capital and practise good farming.
Pandemic viruses arise from raising, harvesting and eating animals. Policy strategy for averting the next pandemic should include supporting those already seeking to make plant-based dietary changes.
Reopening prison farms is a great opportunity for Correctional Service of Canada to become a leader in innovative rehabilitation and reintegration. But a goat dairy operation isn’t the way.
A proposed plan to clean up New Zealand’s waterways draws clear limits on the expansion of dairy farming and irrigation, as well as on the use of nitrogen fertiliser in some key areas.
By 2100, heat stress in cows could see average sized dairy farms losing up to £14,000 a year.
Donald Trump has described NAFTA as the worst trade deal ever signed by the United States. As NAFTA talks continue, here’s what Canada and Mexico can do if the unthinkable happens.
The only reason journalists will mourn the demise of TV news station ANN7 will be the loss of jobs.
Despite the pressure for co-operatives to fold into the dominant corporation model, these business models are still worthy.
Paying a higher price for milk at the supermarket won’t help farmers much as the Australian dairy industry is more exposed to international markets.
Agriculture Minister Barnaby Joyce has announced a package of concessional loans and facilitation of access to assistance for the beleaguered dairy industry.
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Professor of Dairy Production Systems, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Management, Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa – Massey University
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Professor, Senior economist and team leader Food Marketing Research, Scotland's Rural College
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Sir Graeme Harrison Professorial Chair in Global Value Chains and Trade, Lincoln University, New Zealand
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PhD Student, University of Edinburgh
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Reader in Sustainable Livestock and Food Security, University of Bristol
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Chair in Global Farm Animal Health, University of Bristol
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Professor of Livestock Science, Aberystwyth University
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Associate Professor, Monash Business School, Director Corporate Law, Organisation and Litigation Research Group (CLOL), Monash University
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Winthrop Professor, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor of Agri-Food Trade and Policy, University of Guelph
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Research Fellow in Ruminant Livestock Modelling, Aberystwyth University
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Caxton Professor of Journalism, University of the Witwatersrand
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Associate, Centre for Rural Economy, Newcastle University