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"Over the past 26 years we, at Lynn Lowry Farm
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at a reasonable price, that today allows us to still supply parts
to most equipment we sold 25 years ago, and letting us
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customers. We find The Rural Voice has been an excellent
means of informing our customers about the equipment we
sell and of the fact we are still in business."
See the Lowry ad on page 26
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estimated that $200,000NZ would
start a share milker off today, and a
farm owner could put up an average
size milk shed similar to his for
$100,000.
The bobby calves produced by the
nation's 2.1 million dairy cows
Bobby calves account
for much of the export
beef from New
Zealand
account for much of the beef
exported as the number of beef cows
has markedly declined. Overall the
dairy industry contributes 20 per cent
of the farm budget in a country still
counting heavily on agriculture for
survival.
Three quarters of the dairy farmers
have their cows individually tested
for production and milk quality.
With so much dependent on exports,
New Zealand is forced to meet
standards demanded by its best
customers. Inspections are routinely
carried out by the Ministry of
Agriculture and Fisheries on
production facilities to maintain those
standards.
People such as animal rights
groups are having their say as well in
directing the industry's future. The
common practise of cutting off cows'
tails to keep udders cleaner and
making them easier to milk is being
"We've just a small
part of the world
market."
slowly abandoned because of the
outside pressure.
"We are just a very small part of
the (world) market," said Paterson of
the New Zealand dairy farmers, even
though the ability, shown by people
such as himself, to milk 175 cows
daily could be considered herculean.
"Canada could blow us right out
of the water," he added with typical
New Zealand modesty: the type of
comment that would no doubt allow
him to fit right in with his conserva-
tive Canadian counterparts.0