Vim Reekers wants the dairy grazing industry to clean up its act. Too many farmers were happy to take money from dairy farmers and graze their young heifers, but were not properly feeding these cattle they were being paid to care of, the Waikato farmer said. Dairy farmers pay graziers, usually sheep and beef farmers, to farm their young heifers over a period of months with the goal of hitting a target weight prior to the heifers coming back to the dairy farm. If a farmer charged another for heifer grazing then the grazier had a responsibility to properly feed that stock. While there were good, reputable graziers out there, too many were either deliberately negligent or poorly equipped to...
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