Lab-grown meat will be produced at $2/kg within five years and plant-based burgers that bleed are now in US restaurants and supermarkets, a recent conference heard.

Heading into an election that will be won or lost in the towns and cities, farmers must get a hearing on environmental issues, says Meat Industry Association chair John Loughlin.

As MPI keeps working to eradicate Mycoplasma bovis, it has warned farmers to be prepared for possible long-term management of the disease.

Holstein Friesian New Zealand (HFNZ) says its joint sire proving programme with CRV Ambreed is breaking records.

Landcorp is moving to farm more sustainably and reduce its carbon footprint, says chief executive Steven Carden.

A new ready-to-use antibiotic formulation for treating mastitis is now available for New Zealand dairy farmers.

Sollus NZ’s head nutritionist Dr Joe McGrath looks at causes of the involuntary culling taking place in most herds in New Zealand.

Fonterra’s new $150 million cheese plant in Australia will help the co-op further capture the strong global demand for dairy, says chairman John Wilson.

A biogas recovery system using methane from dairy effluent to generate electricity and heat water was one of three finalists in the Energy Technology of the Year award in the 2017 Deloitte Energy Excellence Awards.

Three agribusiness leaders have been elected to the board of rural insurer FMG.