Good effluent management on the dairy farm combines a well-designed system with proper processes to ensure the right amount of effluent gets applied to pasture at the right time.

CRV has produced the first homozygous polled bull to make New Zealand’s prestigious Ranking of Active Sires (RAS) list, demonstrating the strides the company is making in breeding top-quality polled bulls.

OPINION: There's growing confidence that dairy prices are firming up.

OPINION: How do you get people to stop drinking milk and switch to foods like fruit, vegetables, nuts and grains?

OPINION: The late Sir Rob Muldoon once famously quipped that the plane loads of Kiwis jumping the ditch to live in Australia "raised the IQ of both countries".

With mating season just around the corner, Darfield dairy farmer Daniel Schat says activity-monitoring collars have been a game changer on his farm.

Fonterra is spending $75 million at its Studholme site in South Canterbury to boost high value protein production.

Herds in the West Coast settlement of Hari Hari are TB free after a four-year battle to get on top of the area's last outbreak.

There are some positive signs coming from China regarding dairy, according to Stefan Vogel, general manager of Rabobank Research for Australasia.

Fonterra has climbed three places to number six on RaboResearch's annual Global Dairy Top 20 report.