The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has confirmed that the herd of Canterbury cows found with a new strain of Mycoplasma bovis will be culled.

Newly-elected DairyNZ director Chris Lewis says he is humbled and honoured by the confidence farmers have placed in him.

Wairoa Mayor Craig Little says the Government proposal to charge the ag sector for emissions will be the death knell for East Coast farmers.

A group of independent milk processors are accusing the Government of favouring Fonterra.

China's weak economic activity is weighing in on global dairy prices.

Confusion and outright anger reign across rural New Zealand as farmers and communities try to get to the bottom of the Labour Government’s proposal to effectively make a large number of sheep and beef farmers unprofitable in its quest to get them to pay for their agricultural emissions.

Farmers and rural dwellers turned out for Groundswell’s protest in Waikato yesterday.

While New Zealand dairy production is centred around ‘milk from grass’, over the last decade or so, many operators have found that mixer wagons can play an important part in maintaining, or indeed increasing production, particularly in periods of limited grass growth or drought.

Fonterra says it has some reservations about the Government’s consultation document on agricultural emissions.

About 500 Groundswell supporters gathered at Auckland’s Domain today demanding the Government remove the proposed tax on agricultural emissions.