Widespread power outages and blocked roads from severe weather have affected Canterbury dairy farms including those supplying milk to Synlait Milk.

Fonterra's second farming hub in China will be located at Ying County, Shanxi Province and  it is looking to secure strategic partners in the development.

FONTERRA’S RECENT botulism scare has not dented customer confidence, says chairman John Wilson.

HIGH PROFILE agribusinessman Malcolm Bailey has been appointed chairman of the Red Meat Profit Partnership. 

The Dalrymple brothers, Hew and Roger, farming just out of Bulls, have a second pair of eyes looking over their property.  Actually the word is ‘i’ – as in smartphone technology. Peter Burke reports on the technology in use and the savings that result.

A RECENT Agribusiness Agenda report - Vol 1: State of the Nation - suggests a need for much greater understanding of the agribusiness sector by the country’s wider population.

Any farm with several stock classes presents its challenges but as Peter Burke reports, research farm managers have a whole new level of complexity to deal with.

A paper destined for the New Zealand Grassland Association’s annual conference in November will present a long-term data set which could help dairy farm management in a nitrogen-limited environment. Andrew Swallow reports.

Fonterra remains fourth in Rabobank's list of the top 20 dairy companies with a turnover of US$16 billion in dairy sales in 2012.

International farming equipment company GEA Farm Technologies has appointed New Zealand managing director Jamie Mikkelson to the role of vice-president, area Australasia.