Independent dairy processor Westland Milk has lifted its forecast milk payout.

Central Otago winegrowers have a new weapon in their campaign to stop the drift of dangerous agri chemicals – a map initiative.

MPI says it is continuing to build the picture of where the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis is present and contain it to those farms.

Animal health experts are warning that the outbreak of Mycoplasma bovis disease on a large South Canterbury farm could be “a potential game changer”.

Licensed immigration adviser Graydon Sharratt says facts, not politics, should drive good policy.

Former Reserve Bank Director Dame Alison Paterson has been appointed chair of the panel tasked with helping Fonterra find and elect qualified directors.

A Rotorua farm manager has been convicted and fined $3,500 after admitting he used a four-wheel drive to hit dairy cows.

The Ministry of Primary Industries says work continues at pace on a large farming operation in the South Canterbury/Oamaru area to manage the bacterial cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis.

Fonterra has lifted its forecast farmgate milk price for the 2017-18 season by 25c to $6.75/kgMS.

Farmers installing solar power can now get a better return from it than from farming itself, a solar power installer claims.