Cows

Principal Investigator at the MacDiarmid Institute and Dodd-Walls Centre for Photonic and Quantum Technologies, and Director of the Photon Factory at the University of Auckland. Her start-up company… Audio

Ian and Heather Smith have been farming sheep and cattle on their Southland farm in Waimahaka for three decades. Two years ago they decided to build a rotary milking shed, bought 450 cows and… Audio, Gallery

A herd of horned beasts provides milk for Methven cheese makers. Tucked away on an isolated farm near the foothills of the Southern Alps is the only commercial dairy buffalo herd in the South Island… Audio, Gallery

Creators of the hit touring show The Bitches' Box, who are acting as dogs again in the new show, Sons of a Bitch, which tours to 19 woolsheds throughout the South Island in April, alongside… Audio

Prisoners at the Otago Corrections Facility near Milton are being trained in agriculture skills. The Facility has a dairy farm where prisoners milk about 350 cows on the 123 hectare property that the… Audio

CSIRO Land & Water researcher Dr Andrew Higgins has developed a logistics tool called TRANSIT which will reduce the cost and time of transporting cattle around Australia. Audio

Thomas and Hannah Oats are contract milking 350 cows for Thomas's parents near Reefton. Much of their enjoyment of dairying comes from the stock, which is reflected in their management practices. The… Audio

Dairy NZ scientist John Roche says between 2003 and 2013 the average dairy farmer added 100 cows to their herd - but he says they're no better off financially because they have to spend more on… Audio

Tests have been unable link a liver disease outbreak that killed hundreds of cows in Southland with an new variety of swede thought to be the culprit. Audio

A team of Marlborough women -and one bloke- take turns hand-milking Daffodil at 3pm each day. From the Jersey cow's milk they process a variety of goodies from cultured butter and cream to cheeses and… Audio

Ashburton dairy farmers Mark and Devon Slee are the national winners of the 2014 Ballance Farm Environment Awards. They were chosen from the ten regional winners and it's the first time a dairying… Audio

There's a new cow on the block and it's one that has been bred to be heat tolerant. The breed is called Kiwipole and it's been developed by Waikato company Dairy Solutionz. The idea is that the cow… Audio