South Canterbury dairy farmer and recently-retired Fonterra director Leonie Guiney has welcomed an announcement from the Canterbury Regional Council (ECan) that development of its Regional Policy Statement has been paused.

Trade Minister Todd McClay has used a meeting of the CPTPP hosted by Canada to take that country to task for defiantly refusing to open up its dairy market to NZ.

Dairy farmers are one step closer to breeding cow with lower methane emissions, offering an innovative way to reduce the nation's agricultural carbon footprint without compromising farm productivity.

ANZ agricultural economist Susan Kilsby is describing the 2024-25 dairy season as ‘a cracker’.

The dairy industry is well placed to front the cost of new technologies to deal with methane emissions, but the sheep industry isn't.

A record $10/kgMS forecast milk price is a great Christmas present for Fonterra farmers, says Federated Farmers Waikato dairy chair Matthew Zonderop.

Fonterra has unveiled a net profit of $263 million for the first quarter of its 2024-25 financial year.

Fonterra farmers are in line for a record milk price of $10/kgMS this season.

Construction has begun on Farmlands’ new Taranaki store.

Farmers have welcomed the Government’s move designed to limit farm to forestry conversions entering the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).