NZ's primary sector's strong commitment to sustainability holds the key to the country obtaining a quality, comprehensive free trade agreement (FTA) with the European Union.

Herd improvement and agri-tech cooperative LIC has formed a distribution partnership with Israeli-based Afimilk to market its hi-tech cow collars in New Zealand.

More farmers expect economic conditions to improve in the coming year, thanks to increased overseas demand for New Zealand milk and meat.

Record sales of cream cheese in China has seen Fonterra ramp up production at its Darfield site in Canterbury.

A group formed to look at implementation of intensive winter grazing regulations has delivered its advice to the Government.

A Taranaki dairy farmer has been fined $40,000 and put under two years supervision for breaking the tails of 136 cows and docking the tails of 26 cows.

Fonterra will team up with DairyNZ to expand a trial to help improve waterways and reduce on-farm greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) is encouraging farmers to donate to the Meat the Need initiative.

A promising new test for Johne’s disease in dairy cattle has been developed at the Institute for Global Food Security (IGFS) and School of Biological Sciences at Queen’s University Belfast.

Mimicking the old NZ Tourism ad from the 1980s, a farm tourism specialist is urging New Zealanders – who can’t travel overseas due to Covid restrictions – not to ‘leave home until they have seen the country’.