New Zealand engineering firm Strainrite has been manufacturing its own pigtail standards for many decades, working closely with farmers to design and produce standards that are free of the faults farmers say are often found in cheaper, imported brand.

A milk business has been fined $30,000 for not following the rules that regulate the supply and sale of raw milk.

Four years into a world-first attempt to eradicate Mycoplasma bovis (M. bovis), agreed jointly between the Government and farming sector groups, just one infected property remains in New Zealand.

It looks like 2022 will be a repeat of the previous year, with Tractor and Machinery Association (TAMA) president Kyle Baxter seeing first-hand how stronger commodity prices are giving farmers and rural contractors the confidence to invest in new equipment.

The Legacy Sale, dedicated to family and destined to give back, has done just that.

Lawrence Satherley's mother Joy was an incredible woman, by anyone's reckoning.

Over the last decade there has been an increasing national emphasis on measuring and mitigating the environmental impacts of food production systems.

OPINION: A recent report on remuneration for farm workers shows the great strides dairy farmers have made over the years.

OPINION: A North Canterbury cow sanctuary that was investigated following animal welfare concerns seems to have escaped prosecution.

European dairy co-operative Arla Foods has become the second global milk processor to trial the methane-reducing feed additive Bovaer.