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Dairy Farmers Say ‘yes’ To Milksolids Levy

Levy paying dairy farmers have voted to continue the sector’s milksolids levy.

Levy an investment in dairy’s future

Chairman of DairyNZ, Jim van der Poel on the body’s upcoming levy vote.

Head shows DairyNZ has changed

DairyNZ has cut its cloth to address the primary representational needs of dairy farmers and live within its means when milk production is not rising, chairman Jim van der Poel says.

Dairy farmers to cast milksolids levy vote

Dairy farmers are encouraged to have their say in the milksolids levy vote 2020, which is now open for voting. It is a one-in-six year vote for industry good organisation, DairyNZ.

Farmers, Consumers Lose $15 billion to Food Waste

The average farmer spends close to 20% of production costs on fertilizer. Unfortunately, a quarter of that fertilizer is futile when the food is wasted. With the global epidemic of food waste, valuable on-farm inputs are thrown out along with the food. For example,19% of all fertilizer is lost to food waste in the United […]

DairyNZ director is stepping down

One of DairyNZ’s Board of Directors for eight years, Mr Allomes was elected by dairy farmer levy payers in 2011, as one of five farmer-elected directors. Since then, the Woodville-based dairy farmer has played a key role contributing to the governance of DairyNZ and provided key support around a range issues, in particular people and talent.