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Taking heat stress off dairy cows.

“Avoid The Heat Of The Day”

With the advent of climate change, dairy farmers could expect to be dealing with more days where their cows are suffering from heat stress. That’s the message from DairyNZ’s Jacqueline McGowan, an expert in animal behaviour. She says her gut feeling is that the actual heat stress itself will not be worse than the past,…

The Summer Solstice In New Zealand.

The Summer Solstice

NIWA and the corporate media would have everybody believe that we’re in the middle of summer. They are incorrect. We are, in fact, only three weeks into summer. I think we can all agree that the middle of summer (aka the height of summer) is the hottest phase of the season, and we all know…