Farmers need to ask themselves how often they have loaded onto a truck an animal they would not be happy eating, says Nuffield scholar David Kidd.

OPINION: Most farmers would be surprised to learn there is no evidence that New Zealand agriculture is warming the planet. 

At last we hear the long-awaited news: the EU has agreed to negotiate a free trade agreement (FTA) with New Zealand.

Irish farmers are in a lather about a dairy farmer in County Limerick being fined $350 this month for the dung a judge ruled was left by his cows on a road, causing a motorcycle crash.

Fonterra is “very comfortable” with its $7/kgMS farmgate milk price forecast for the 2018-19 season, says chairman John Wilson.

The Ministry for Primary Industries has allocated more trained staff to the Mycoplasma bovis crisis. 

With the Mycoplasma bovis decision there comes some certainty and the need to make the eradication programme work.

Federated Farmers vice president Andrew Hoggard says the NAIT system has worried him for a long time and he doubts whether it would cope with an outbreak of foot and mouth disease (FMD)

LIC chief executive Wayne McNee says it hasn’t found any sign of the disease Mycoplasma bovis in its bulls or semen.

Opinion is divided on the Mycoplasma bovis decision in favour of phased eradication.