An $8 forecast farmgate milk price for this season remains on the cards despite a fourth straight dip in global dairy prices.

Dairy Companies Association of New Zealand (DCANZ) chairman Malcolm Bailey has been nominated for the Outstanding Contribution Award at the Primary Industry Awards.

Fonterra's small group of organic farmers are facing a drop in milk price after a record $10.26/kgMS payout last year.

Mid-Canterbury farmers David and Kate Acland own Mt Somers Station, near the Ashburton River gorge and the epicentre of the heaviest falls.

Canterbury is drying out after a rare red alert weather bomb dumped up to half a metre of rain across the province in only three days and caused "devastating" damage to swathes of farmland, especially in the dairying heartland of Ashburton.

A dairy farmer whose neglect of yearling cattle led to 11 deaths has been fined $17,500 and warned that he could be disqualified from farming if he appears on animal welfare charges again.

The increasingly popular UTV/side-by-side sector offers a wide range of choices for farm or rural mobility, which has been made even broader with a new machine from Yamaha.

Manawatu dairy farmers Wendy and Richard Ridd consider the environment extensively when making decisions on their farm that runs to 260 hectares, with a milking platform of 196 cows.

When it comes to award-winning innovation, Waverley and Wilco Klein Ovink got started early.

A year on from taking over the ownership of Numedic, owner Marina Millar says the company is going well.