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Dairy Exporter - September 2009
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Capital needed – and farmers may supply it
One of the options in Fonterra’s imminent capital restructuring debate
will be for farmers to invest more capital in the cooperative, chairman Sir
Henry van der Heyden has indicated ... page 6
A topsy-turvy world down south
South Canterbury dairy farmers Aad and Wilma van Leeuwen have turned the dairy season
on its head for one of their 11 dairy units, calving in autumn, milking solely
in the winter and housing up to 1000 cows under one very large roof ... page
22
Reaching out to the next generation
Newly elected LIC director Murray King is a strong believer in farming from
an intergenerational viewpoint ... page 32
Cheese transforms raw milk into gold
While every dairy farm around them was getting bigger or getting out, the Veldhuizen
family of Texas went another way, downsizing their herd and boosting milk returns
by 10 times ... page 69
The new crop on the wintering block
Fodder beet’s potential for high yields of good-quality winter feed is
attracting the attention of graziers and dairy farmers alike, but the hype is
tempered with some provisos ... page 121