Fonterra farmers are questioning the timing of the announcement of chief executive‘s Theo Spierings departure.

Taupo dairy farmer Kylie Leonard has scooped the 2018 Dairy Community Leadership Award.

Southland dairy farmer and leadership coach, Loshni Manikam has been chosen as the Fonterra Dairy Woman of the Year.

Fonterra has lifted its forecast farm gate milk price by 15c/kgMS on the back of strong global demand for dairy products.

Good farm records have helped to relieve a South Island farming business of some of the effects of getting through a Mycoplasma bovis infection, reports FarmIQ Systems Ltd, a software company.

This old mutt has been around the traps a few years now, but he has never seen a more draconian attempt to shut down debate than Fonterra’s recent legal move to prevent former director Leonie Guiney talking to rural media.

A grass-only farm can be as profitable as a farm using imported feed, according to a study in Northland.

The Misperception Index published at the end of 2017 makes a point with evidence. 

In recent years the pork industry has had to transform itself in the face of public pressure; now it offers the benefit of its experiences to ‘big brother’ sectors.

The National Animal Identification and Tracing (NAIT) system has provided the MPI investigators dealing with the Mycoplasma bovis outbreak nearly 1000 reports since the disease was identified last July.