The water tax proposal by the Labour Party “is making us all fairly blimmin’ nervous isn’t it,” says Federated Farmers president and dairy farmer Katie Milne.

People often like to talk about the good old days.

Call at the Affco Horotiu stockyards any time between 5am and 5pm on any day and the chances are Mike Winikerei will be there.

A ground-breaking prototype methane recovery system on a 950 cow farm in Southland has demonstrated for the first time the commercial viability of this technology in a cool climate.

Cambridge farm software entrepreneur Peter Floyd believes soils’ power as a carbon sink warrants more investigation and funding.

A third South Island farm may have the bacterial cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis.

New Zealand dairy processors could struggle to get enough milk to operate their plants, according to a new report by Rabobank.

Rural News machinery editor Mark Daniel took time during a recent whistle-stop European study tour to visit the Royal Welsh Show.

Banks may increasingly lose patience with farms with very high cost structures and very high debt burdens, warns Chris Bloor, financial systems analyst at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.

The recent case of animal mistreatment on Invercargill farms is a “sad slur” on the good reputation of New Zealand dairy farmers, says DairyNZ.