A Timaru wool-broker has been elected the youngest-ever president of the Canterbury A&P Association.

New Zealand needs to take a multi-pronged approach to dealing with the perceived threat of plant-based food substitutes.

Westland Milk Products is promising better things for the 2018-19 season, while conceding that this season’s payout will be disappointing.

Despite high fat prices it is now more profitable for Fonterra to make whole milk powder than butter and skim milk powder, co-op chairman John Wilson says.

Beef + Lamb New Zealand (BLNZ) is seeking farmers’ views on its plan to gather a higher levy. 

Fonterra shareholders could end up losing over $1 billion on the co-op’s controversial investment in Chinese infant formula company Beingmate, says business commentator Rod Oram.

Scientists say although the new rabbit calicivirus is working as expected, farmers are not seeing the knockdown they may have hoped for.

China's digital world is second to none, but Fonterra isn’t putting all its eggs in one basket in selling fresh and packaged food.

Eighty calves set out on their journey to the petfood factory as farmers and agri people met recently at Morrinsville to discuss Mycoplasma bovis.

The way New Zealand takes on challenges and opportunities will shape the future of our food, fibre and timber industries, said Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor at Fieldays last week.

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