Civil Defence, or ‘Emergency Management’ as it prefers to be called, must put its staff and volunteers through a rural awareness course.

DairyNZ has laid a complaint over a Greenpeace advertisement that says industrial dairy farming and massive irrigation schemes are polluting waterways.

Fonterra shareholders are facing an interesting choice in the board elections.

Almost constant rain will have long term implications for dairy farmers in the North Island, says DairyNZ’s general manager of extension, Andrew Reid.

The country's main farm insurer FMG is encouraging farmers who have suffered quake damage to telephone for advice on making claims.

Fonterra chief operating officer global consumer and foodservice, Jacqueline Chow believes we are entering into a renaissance period for dairy.

Only a few days are left until entries close in the 2016 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards.

Three candidates are vying for two Fonterra board seats this year: sitting director Michael Spaans, Donna Smit, Bay of Plenty and Stuart Nattrass, Canterbury. Voting ends at 10.30am on December 6.

Fonterra's $6/kgMS forecast is good news considering the tough couple of years endured by its farmers, says chairman John Wilson.

Waiau dairy farmer Graeme Coats is full of praise for the engineers who got his rotary milking shed working again within two days of the November 14 7.8-magnitude quake which has disrupted the South Island’s upper east coast.