With the culling season underway, MPI is reminding farmers that each animal is their responsibility until it is accepted by a processor or saleyard.

Two farms from the North Island east coast and one from Central Hawkes Bay are the finalists in this year’s Ahuwhenua competition for the top Māori sheep and beef farm.

Westland Milk Products says the DIRA is still needed, but with some changes.

The a2 Milk Company and Fonterra are working closely through “the next wave of commercial opportunities together”. 

An intelligent new Auto Mix + Spray unit from GEA’s FIL division is said to set a gold standard in teat spraying, providing farmers with an accurately mixed solution applied ‘fresh’ at every milking.

LIC has spent $1 million to revamp its semen processing centre in the Manawatu.

Dairy farmers could end up paying more for the Mycoplasma bovis eradication effort if they do not endorse DairyNZ’s proposed levy.

Local solutions to local environmental problems: that’s Ireland’s plan for improving the quality of water in rivers and lakes.

Farmers across the top of the South Island are pinning their hopes on forecast rain to ease a drought some say is shaping up to be the worst since 2001.

Fonterra says it has taken “a minority stake” in a US company promoting alternative protein.