Primary Industries Ministers Nathan Guy and Jo Goodhew have welcomed Fonterra's announcement that it will be investing $240 million to build a new mozzarella plant at its Clandeboye site in South Canterbury.

A new $240 million mozzarella plant announced today will double Fonterra’s capacity to produce its revolutionary individually quick frozen (IQF) mozzarella.

Waikato Regional Council’s Plan Change 1 "Healthy Rivers" plan was always going to be controversial.

DairyNZ's extension manager Andrew Reid says there’s some truth in the suggestion that a whole generation of farmers have never relied solely on grazing their cows on grass.

Farmers involved in the recent Federated Farmers-led case study to test the on-farm implications of Healthy Rivers Wai Ora have urged Waikato landowners to get on board with the proposed plan change process.

The global supply/demand is beginning to rebalance, says Fonterra chairman John Wilson.

Bay of Plenty farmer Donna Smit says she is “thrilled to bits” at her election to the Fonterra board.

Expect more flak from politicians and others as New Zealand moves into general election mode, says Federated Farmers Dairy chair Andrew Hoggard.

Kaikoura's dairy farms are back in business, a convoy of tankers having resumed milk collection exactly three weeks after the 7.8 magnitude earthquake cut off all road access.

Don Galletly’s Loch Ness dairy farm on the Emu Plain, near Waiau, remains the only one in North Canterbury unable to milk in the wake of the November 14 quake.