Before we all woke up to the fact dairy effluent is not a waste product, we tended to spread it rather 'inelegantly' on paddocks.

Fonterra company Tip Top is to trial online sales of New Zealand-made ice cream in China – the world's biggest ice cream market.

Australian dairy farmers are to get $600 million taxpayer money to help them endure the slump in farmgate prices.

Genetics trials on a scale not seen for at least 15 years have renewed farmer enthusiasm for beef genetics.

A New Zealand dairy farmer who has farmed overseas and worked with some of the largest dairy genetics organisations now heads World Wide Sires in New Zealand.

Rural News catches up with the Rabobank farm ownership options national manager Brent Irving.

Significant work has been done as a response to the emergence of bovine anaemia associated with Theileria orientalis infection (TABA) in New Zealand.

Well, it was supposed to be a dry summer, but all it has done here in Northland is rain!

A trade mark registration gives its owner the exclusive right to use that trade mark throughout New Zealand in relation to the products or services for which it is registered.

With the likelihood of a dry summer for many parts of New Zealand sheep farmers need to prepare now, says Professor Paul Kenyon, Massey University.