While warmer than average temperatures are expected across most of the country until Christmas, commodity prices are showing a somewhat more stable outlook for the season ahead.

The head of Massey University School of Agriculture and Environment, Professor Paul Kenyon, has received another accolade.

The new chair of Parliament’s primary production select committee, Mark Cameron, is promising “better law making” for the sector.

According to the New Zealand Dairy Statistics report, dairy sector production held strong in the face of difficult climate conditions throughout the 2022/23 season.

Recently released data from the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ) shows there were 77 fewer farm sales for the three months ended November 2023 than for the three months ended November 2022.

A $7-plus milk price for this season is almost locked in, claims ASB economist Nathaniel Keall.

The controversial National Policy Statement for Freshwater Management 2020 (NPS-FM) will be gone and replaced within two years, the new Government has announced.

A Southland dairy farmer is questioning Nestle’s offer of a small milk price premium for farmers who meet quality, safety and sustainability targets set by Fonterra.

Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) chair Kate Acland has been returned unopposed as a board member for another three-year term.

Global food giant Nestle will provide a small premium to Fonterra farmers who achieve one of the three levels of Fonterra’s The Co-operative Difference framework during the 2023/24 season.