Passion for farming and their animals runs deep for David and Pip Fullerton, known for their international genetics work with Holsteins on their “top-performing” South Waikato farm, comments feed manufacturer Fibre Fresh.

Australian dairy processor Warrnambool Cheese and Butter is boosting its presence in the cheese market by taking over a rival’s brands.

In April two people died on farms in ‘workplace’ deaths – one was a boy aged 14. And in Waikato in April a toddler nearly drowned in dairy farm effluent. 

Between 2009 and 2014 there were 241 workplace fatalities in New Zealand.

Until recently alternative energy was a niche market, normally talked about by people who had goatee beards and wore sandals with white socks. How times change. 

You may be old enough to remember the movie: the year 1971, and Sean Connery aka James Bond is chased by security guards on red three-wheel motorbikes with huge knobbly tyres.

Many Fonterra shareholders were disappointed with the interim results the co-op announced last month.  Many feel they are not seeing a return on their investment.

Tractors are hitting the paddocks as the cultivation season looms.

With the paint still wet on Robertson Manufacturing’s Little Ripper bale feeder, the company exhibited the machine for the first time at the South Island Field Days, taking the runner-up prize for New Zealand-made farm machinery.

Shanghai Pengxin's subsidiary Milk New Zealand Holdings won two prizes at the recent BNZ New Zealand Chinese Business Awards.