Dairy farmers in the Hauraki Plains and northern Waikato region will struggle with calving, says DairyNZ’s general manager of extension, Andrew Reid.

Farmers don't condone their peers knowingly spilling effluent, says Waikato Federated Farmers president Andrew McGiven.

Farmers must start figuring how to reduce cow numbers without losing farm production or profit.

Corporate farmer Colin Armer, among New Zealand’s most prominent, says dairying will prosper more by greater pasture utilisation than by supplementary feeds that incur many direct expenses and associated costs.

Taupo dairy company Miraka will pay an extra $3 million to its suppliers as part of an incentive scheme for good farming practices. The scheme is voluntary.

New Zealand, as we all know, is blessed with abundant water and we have it to ourselves.

Your old mate reckons multinational, tax-dodging political activist lobby group Greenpeace is proving just how nasty it can get when people disagree with its worldview.

Global Dairy Trade (GDT) star performer, butter enjoyed another strong jump in prices overnight.

About 200 dairy farmers and industry leaders celebrated the opening of the new Southern Dairy Hub on Friday.

Environment Canterbury's proposed Plan Change 5 is unworkable, says Federated Farmers Mid-Canterbury chairman, Michael Salvesen.