Judging has begun to select the winners in the 2012 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards from the record 525 entrants.

Despite good levels of rainfall throughout the region, dairy farmers in South Otago and Southland are still managing difficult dry conditions.

Sir Michael Fay's legal challenge to the sale of Crafar Farms to a Chinese buyer will put Overseas Investment Office processes through the judicial wringer, says Federated Farmers.

MAF's Dairy Industry Restructuring Act (DIRA) discussion document threatens farm-gate milk prices and farmer-shareholder ownership of Fonterra, says South Canterbury farmer Leonie Guiney.

Ahead of the facial eczema risk season, farm nutrition company Altum is releasing a new treatment formula.

NONE OF the proposed changes to the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act will reduce the retail price of milk, say farmers.

MORE THAN 30 farmers turned out for a field day to see and hear how automation in the milking shed is helping one Canterbury dairy farmer cut cell counts and combat mastitis.

FOR SOMEONE who has not done a lot of competitive ploughing, Colin Millar, of Rotorua (formerly of Reporoa), has come to the fore in this farming 'sport'.

Federated Farmers is calling time on independent processors already receiving Fonterra milk.

Fonterra and the Shareholders Council have lashed out at the Government's proposal to make about 200 million litres more a year of milk available to other dairy companies.