Wow it's wet! The warm, wet autumn has been followed by a wet winter and many farms are struggling to cope.

Canadian dairy farmer Alex Huisman is no stranger to milking three times a day.

Fencing waterways protects freshwater from nutrients, effluent and sediment by excluding stock and creating a buffer between water and the land.

A farmer-made video opposing Labour’s proposed water tax has garnered praise and support.

The Ministry for Primary Industries’ tracing and testing programme has identified three new properties positive for the bacterial cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis.

Two Fonterra cheeses have won silver awards at the international Cheese Awards held recently at Nantwich, UK.

The pledge is simple: we are committed to New Zealand’s rivers being swimmable for our children and grandchildren.

One teaspoon of soil contains more living organisms than there are people in the world. Without this biological diversity there would be no life on earth.

Southern German dairying practice of keeping cows indoors 24/7 makes a convincing argument for getting cows out of winter cold -- or mid-summer heat -- and explaining why more cow barns are springing up in the south of New Zealand.

Cheese, butter and milk powder manufacturing has been picked in the top five of 200 New Zealand industries to perform well this year, according to global business intelligence company IBISWorld.