Two robotic milkers on 29ha platform are not the norm in New Zealand, but that's the case for the Comins family that farm at Kihikiki, south of Te Awamutu where they milk 100 cows.

More than one million calf feed bags each year could be saved from landfill as SealesWinslow becomes one of the first animal nutrition companies in New Zealand to join Agrecovery.

Federated Farmers president Wayne Langford delivered his annual report at its annual meeting in Wellington last week. Here's what he said:

Hauraki farmer Amber Carpenter has been named the new chair of the Dairy Environment Leaders group.

Farmers and rural consultants participating in the Waimakariri district “Next Generation Farming” pilot study, say the process “opened their eyes” to possibilities for improvement in farm businesses, but was also challenging.

OPINION: Former DairyNZ chief executive Tim Mackle apparently had a dozen job offers in the past few weeks - all from farmers offering him farm assistant jobs!

OPINION: We recently stumbled upon a very old copy of the New Zealand Herald, dated May 21, 1952.

OPINION: There will be a few happy and relieved Fonterra farrmers in Otorohanga.

Southland farmers say forced rules enforcements around winter grazing is just a "box ticking exercise".

DairyNZ is working on a project to engage better with Māori dairy farmers and in a way that has meaning to them.