Fonterra is introducing a new standard payment term for small businesses which will affect 83% of its suppliers, the cooperative says.

One of the most unpredictable places to be in a dairy shed is arguably the back end of a cow.

Automation company Lely says fully robotic farms are the future for the booming global dairy industry.

Fish & Game chief executive Martin Taylor has dismissed as “ridiculous” a claim by Irrigation New Zealand chief executive Andrew Curtis that irrigation is good for the environment.

Modern irrigation is all about “precision rainfall,” says Federated Farmers water and environment spokesperson Chris Allen.

Economists are optimistic of a small rise in this season’s farmgate milk price.

Butter prices look like making another strong run, says ASB senior rural economist Nathan Penny.

All possible pathways remain open in the hunt for the source of the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis, says MPI’s director of response, Geoff Gwyn.

Federated Farmers previous president, William Rolleston, was very supportive of GE and there was a perception that Feds was leading the charge in support of the science — but this could now cost them.

Researchers at Livestock Improvement Corp (LIC) are working with the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to piece together a genetic jigsaw of 15 million pieces.