Fitting out an entire dairy herd with wireless digital activity monitors is so effective a management tool that it even reduces human stress.

Landcorp is to sponsor the Ahuwhenua Trophy, which recognises excellence in Maori dairy and sheep and beef farming.

At least 59% of the public surveyed has a favourable opinion of dairying and 90% of media coverage of dairying is positive/neutral.

Farmlands Cooperative has bought into the farm software firm FarmIQ, a developer of software for farming and agribusiness.

South Island dairy goat farmers still have no large-scale market for goat milk some 18 months after a Chinese-backed processing plant began to be built -- with some fanfare – at Ashburton.

The change of government is rattling farmer confidence, according to the latest Rabobank Rural Confidence Survey.

Plan now how you will manage for drought this summer, says DairyNZ.

Most farmers are satisfied with their banks, according to the latest Federated Farmers Banking Survey.

Farmers supplying milk to Fonterra under contract will now have up to nine years to be fully ‘shared up’.

Waihi farm owners Jean and David Mansfield like running their business their way.