A young East Coast farmer is the poster girl for a new dairy sector campaign to attract more locals to milk cows.

OPINION: The piece by Dr Jacqueline Rowarth ‘Time to do the math’ contained one point which I totally agree with, misinformation is rife within the emissions debate.

Colin Harvey (ONZM), one of the NZ agri-sector’s foremost innovators and contributors, died in a drowning accident in late January.

The country's second largest milk processor has broken the $9/kgMS milk price barrier.

A Hawke’s Bay deer farm is part of a Ministry for Primary Industries-funded project providing a national snapshot of farm performance.

Dairy farmers are being urged not to compromise cow condition as they chase a record milk price this season.

Canterbury milk processor Synlait says its farmer suppliers will get a record base milk price of $9.25/kgMS this season.

Farmers are being urged to have good plans in place for dealing with any major community outbreak of Covid-19 and, in particular, the omicron variant.

Pressure from government ministers is effectively forcing the He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN) nationwide farmer consultation to go ahead.

ASB says that, amidst the possibility of an incursion into Ukraine by Russia, it is unlikely the dairy industry will see a repeat of 2014 when conflict between the two countries led to a crash in dairy prices.