Feedback from farmers is crucial to DairyNZ, helping it respond to farmers’ needs and fine-tune resources. A case in point is its facial eczema workshop.

Westland’s board chairman Matt O’Regan will step down as chairman and retire from the board on March 3, 2017.

Good spring grass growth has the Lincoln University Dairy Farm (LUDF) heading for another operating profit.

As a result of the last two seasons’ historically low payouts many farmers have become very cost focussed.

The hunt is on for great dairy pastures in Waikato and Bay of Plenty.

DairyNZ chief executive Tim Mackle says cruel and illegal practices are not in any way condoned or accepted by the industry as part of dairy farming.

International dairy commodity prices have recovered markedly in recent months, as global supply and demand slowly balance, according to Dairy Australia’s latest Situation and Outlook report.

I was chatting to a mate the other day about mating when it dawned on me that we wouldn’t know each other if it weren’t for the Dairy Industry Awards.

Once again dairy farmers have been struck a cruel blow with the weather playing the trump card.

Argentina, once seen as a world ‘bread basket’, today faces many obstacles in achieving this. Argentinean student Pablo Fraga reports on the challenges of dairy farming in his country.