Robust talk about the environment will be on the agenda at the East Coast Farming Expo, whose organisers will shine a light on this hotly debated aspect of farming. 

Greenpeace has suggested that meat and dairy product consumption should be reduced to 16kg and 33 kg per person per year, respectively. 

The National Fieldays is calling innovators: join our 50th celebrations and bring your new gadgets along.

Guy Wrigley, Federated Farmers arable industry chairman, said the prospect of plant-based protein foods should not be cause for alarm. 

New independent research about farmers’ and growers’ media habits reveals the rural market is unique.

Farmers widely support the decision to cull 22 more herds infected with Mycoplasma bovis. 

‘It was the only way forward,’ says the Minister of Agriculture, Damien O’Connor, on the decision to slaughter more than 22,000 cows with M. bovis. 

Outgoing Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings has hinted his next job may not be high profile.

MPI's prediction that 2018 would be a great year for primary industry exports has proven correct. 

The supply and demand of global dairy products is well balanced, claims Fonterra.