What's trending in the dairy world? Jacqueline Chow, Fonterra’s COO global consumer and foodservice, explains...

No one immediate solution is available to New Zealand to deal with the problem of greenhouse gas emissions caused by agriculture.

The winner of the Massey Agricultural Student of the Year prize, DairyNZ scholar Jack van Bussel (20), is planning a future in rural banking.

Irish scientists are working on breeding grasses and cereal crops able to better handle wet conditions.

Dairy farmers in most North Island regions are hard hit by rain which is hindering pasture utilisation and causing milk production to drop.

A ship barred from discharging its palm kernel expeller (PKE) cargo remained anchored off Tauranga Port late last week.

Fonterra's peak milk collection has taken a hit from the prolonged wet weather hitting North Island production.

The success of an on-farm exercise run by the Ministry for Primary Industries shows that NZ is well prepared to manage the biosecurity aspects of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak, it says.

Two long-serving Fonterra farmer directors – Malcolm Bailey and Ian Farrelly –will retire from the Fonterra board at the cooperative’s annual meeting on 8 December.

Despite wet weather in many regions, the outlook is encouraging and we are seeing plenty of good growth around the country as rural contractors start cranking up for their busy season.