A new training facility for aspiring dairy farmers and herd and farm managers in the central North Island has its first intake of students.

Sixty new dairy process jobs were created when Fonterra opened four plants in the South Island recently.

The world has changed and we need to understand that, says Mike Petersen, special agricultural trade envoy.

The $8.40/kgMS payout was probably the worst thing that happened to the dairy industry, says family corporate farmer Trevor Hamilton.

Former Fonterra director Greg Gent says grass will become fashionable again as the effects of lower dairy prices continue.

With the end of 2016 in sight, New Holland has released details of the FR range of self-propelled foragers.

The eight organisations that formed a Bobby Calf Action Group at the end of 2015 are well advanced on a range of initiatives ensuring best practice handling and management of bobby calves.

The Ministry of Primary Industries has begun an advertising campaign encouraging people to let it know if they come across the mis-treatment of livestock.

The wool market in both the North and South Island continues to show resilience.

Westgold Unsalted Butter won Food for Chefs Champion Butter at the prestigious New Zealand Champions of Cheese awards on Tuesday.

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