Heartland: Dairy – less damage than alternatives
Environmentalists have suggested dairying costs the country more than it brings in export earnings. They're wrong.
New figures from DairyNZ, the industry levy body, indicate milk was worth only $8 billion to the national economy for 2015-16, down $7.5b since the payout peaked in 2013-14 at $8.40 a kilogram of milksolids.
This wasn’t news to most farmers still struggling to feed cows, manage reproduction
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Jacqueline Rowarth
Fri, 04 Nov 2016
Fri, 04 Nov 2016
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Heartland: Dairy – less damage than alternatives
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