Animal and Plant Plant Health New Zealand has appointed Dr Liz Shackleton as its new chief executive.

The sudden death of champion cheesemaker Adrian Walcroft has sent shockwaves through the specialty cheese making industry.

Thirteen dairy farmers have put their names forward for two DairyNZ board positions.

DairyNZ has revised its breakeven milk price, as one way to help farmers navigate the challenging economic conditions they face this season.

Farmers must wait until the next season to see a lift in farm profit margins, says Westpac senior agricultural economist Nathan Penny.

Recent data from the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ) shows a 22.5% drop in the amount of farm sales for the three months ended July 2023 than for the same period in 2022.

The Olsen family have been involved in diversification for generations in the farming settlement of Opiki in the Horowhenua between Levin and Palmerston North. They have always had a dairy farm and grown potatoes.

A Fonterra shareholder says the co-operative's capital structure experiment has gone wrong.

Latest data out of China isn't making good reading for New Zealand dairy farmers.

Fonterra expects demand for its dairy products in China to return next year.