Planning for the 2023 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards (NZDIA) is underway with national sponsors continuing to back the programme.

The Government is spending $150,000 to help upgrade rural internet.

Auckland Young Farmer Tim Dangen has been named the 54th FMG Young Farmer of the Year.

A proposed Dairy Cattle Code of Welfare is highly prescriptive and dictates what a farmer must do, rather than having an outcome that will need to be met, says Federated Farmers.

Fonterra is tapping into the global health and wellbeing market to boost returns for farmer shareholders.

DairyNZ wants the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC) to go back to the drawing board on many areas in its proposed Code of Welfare.

Boutique cheesemaker Little River Estate was named one of four supreme winners at the NZ Champions of Cheese Awards last month.

Golden Bay farmer Wayne Langford has been elected new vice president of Federated Farmers.

The 2022-23 farmgate milk price is likely to be one of the strongest on record, says ASB economist Nat Keall.

Outgoing Federated Farmers national board member Chris Lewis took out the Primary Industry Champion award in Auckland last night.