Dairy prices ended their recent slide in last night’s GlobalDairyTrade auction, with the price index lifting 2.7%.

Rural contractors have challenged MPI and Federated Farmers over the management of Mycoplasma bovis.

Third generation North Canterbury farmer Roscoe Taggart believes that continuous innovation is vital for sustainable arable farming.

OPINION: It can only get harder to farm during the next 10 to 20 years — but pasture-based mitigation techniques can help.

OPINION: A misreported study from Denmark could spoil New Zealand’s reputation, or create health worries which are unfounded.

Beef producers have agreed to pay an extra levy to fund the sector’s costs of the Mycoplasma bovis response.

A plea for New Zealand to embrace gene editing is being sounded by Sir Lockwood Smith.

Oamaru vet Dr Merlyn Hay, who in 2017 outed Mycoplasma bovis on an Oamaru dairy farm, won the premier award at the Feds conference.

Farmers are being assured that any spying on grazing practices on farm this winter won’t upset stock.

Almost all the recommendations from two reviews of the Mycoplasma bovis programme have been accepted, after the ‘surge in activity’ leading up to this year’s moving day.