A large dairy farming operation, linked to Fonterra chairman Peter McBride, has been fined $47,000 for an effluent management breach.

Dairy Women’s Network (DWN) have announced that the keynote speaker for their three upcoming conferences will be former Black Stick and three-time Olympian Gemma McCaw.

A new report estimates the gross output of Māori horticulture in New Zealand is around $220 million per year.

With many industries hit hard by the Covid pandemic, it seems the popular consensus is that agriculture will be the saving grace for many countries’ economies.

Your old mate wonders if the over-reaching do-gooder who set up a North Canterbury cow sanctuary “to save retired dairy cows and bobby calves from slaughter” will face any charges for animal cruelty. 

Dairy conversion has taken on a whole new meaning around the small Horowhenua township of Otaki.

Trade Ministers for New Zealand and China have signed an upgrade to the free trade agreement between the two countries.

A new partnership between the Dairy Women’s Network (DWN) and New Zealand-owned milk replacer supplier AgriVantage is set to increase farmers’ knowledge around the importance of nutrition in the early stages of calf rearing.

The stage is set for another rise in Fonterra’s forecast milk payout following a fifth straight jump in Global Dairy Trade (GDT) prices.

New Zealand dairy farmers deserve credit for premium prices fetched around the world for their milk, says Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell.