While US based CareerCast may have found melancholic American dairy farmers and even more depressed 'lumberjacks', the primary industry downunder is upbeat and fizzing.

Dairy Women's Network is seeking two, new independent trustees to join its board. The additions will take the registered charitable trust from a board of eight to 10.

If you're a New Zealand Young Farmers Member, or want to be one, then Dunedin's the place to be from May 24 to 27 this year.

EXPERTS WILL share their insights at the second DairyNZ Farmers’ Forum at Hamilton on May 23-24.

TAF IS coming down to the wire as evidenced by articles in Dairy News March 13.

THE ELEVATION of Amy Adams to Minister for the Environment is seen by the pundits as an inspired choice. 

Some Southland farmers will be “condemned to poverty” because of dairy conversions now requiring resource consent, says Southland’s Federated Farmers vice-president Russell McPherson.

Landcorp farming made a net profit of $11 million in the six months to December 31, 2011, and expects to reach at least $20 million for the full year.

New Zealand's dairy industry needs to build on its first-mover advantage in China and elsewhere by adding more value, says a leading economist.

THE NEW Environment Minister Amy Adams believes water will be her new portfolio’s biggest single issue – one on which both sides in the water debate must retreat from extreme positions on how water is used.