Rural services trader PGG Wrightson is bracing for a challenging year ahead as commodity prices continue to slide.

The makers of a feed additive that reduces methane emissions in livestock says the green light from the Environment Protection Authority (EPA) is an important step to register it in New Zealand.

I'd rather have cost inflation than income deflation, says Woodville dairy farmer and former industry leader, Ben Allomes, in response to the present crisis facing dairy farmers.

Manawatu farmer Jarrod Rider believes happy cows and staff should be the bottom line of dairy farming.

Farmers are being urged to budget on a milk price in the lower half of Fonterra's present guidance range, $6.25 to $7.75/kgMS.

Fonterra may need to provide additional support to cash-strapped farmers if the forecast milk price continues to fall.

Fonterra farmers are cutting costs on farm and expect similar discipline from their co-operative.

Fonterra is getting a clear message from farmer shareholders - don't burden them with new requirements and costs.

A day of bad news for Fonterra farmers is ending on a high note – the co-operative is paying out $800 million today as capital return to shareholders.

Federated Farmers president Wayne Langford says the Government’s recently released emissions pricing plan is ‘tone-deaf’.