Dairy farmers have made clear to the Government that they don’t support a methane reduction target of 24% to 47% by 2050.

The Australian dairy industry will need 800 extra workers on farms by 2023.

Dairy prices fell overnight in Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction, reversing the lift in the previous event.

World-renowned dairy co-op FrieslandCampina has posted a half-year operating profit of $354 million.

Two farm workers have been fined $24,700 for breaching effluent management rules.

French global food company Danone says it will spend NZ$40 million on its Nutricia spray drying plant at Balclutha to achieve net carbon neutrality there by 2021.

DairyNZ says its CalvingSmart workshops attracted 1500 farmers NZ-wide, many with all their staff, over the past two months.

High performing suppliers to Synlait, Canterbury, were honoured at an awards ceremony at the annual supplier conference in Christchurch in July.

Farmers may think the pressure of climate change today is bad, but it will get much, much worse, says Primary Sector Council chairman Lain Jager.

Water will be costly and difficult to fix, says Guy Salmon, executive director of the policy think-tank Ecologic and a driving force behind the Land and Water Forum.