Reducing cow numbers isn’t the ‘silver bullet’ to lowering greenhouse gas emissions in New Zealand, says Northland farmer and entrepreneur Tom Pow.

A Hauraki Plains dairy farm and two in the eastern Bay of Plenty are the finalists in this year’s Ahuwhenua Trophy for the top Maori Dairy farm of the year.

The Lincoln University Demonstration Dairy Farm (LUDF) is looking to cut staff numbers as it adopts a new “lean” system in an effort to cut costs and maintain its place as a leader of the industry.

The Climate Change Commission is allowing more time for public submissions on its draft advice to the Government.

New research, out last week, shows farmers can identify ways to increase efficiency and reduce environmental footprint – but there will be challenges for some.

On his first day as Miraka’s new chief executive, Grant Watson got a clear sense of the Maori-owned business.

Fonterra has released details of how it will pay farmers for producing sustainable, high quality milk as part its Co-operative Difference programme.

Quite often the need to regularly agitate dairy effluent ponds or tanks is overlooked in the initial design stages.

Massey University student Sophie Ridd is this year’s recipient of Ravensdown’s Hugh Williams Memorial Scholarship.

New Zealand's meat processing industry says, while it supports moves away from coal, it has some major concerns about cuts to livestock numbers as proposed in the recent Climate Change Commission’s draft report.