Too passive: that's how the Government's chief science advisor Sir Peter Gluckman has described farmers' attitudes to research.

Major milestones are being knocked off as construction on one of the world's largest dryers races towards completion.

Books and music company Amazon is moving into food and you can't ignore the power it will have, says Ian Proudfoot, KPMG's global head of agribusiness.

Feds dairy chairman Andrew Hoggard is hearing two different outlooks for the sector in the next two years – one gloomy, one optimistic.

A top-level primary industries taskforce will work through Brexit issues, the Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy told Federated Farmers.

Animal management and fencing supplier Gallagher took out a gong at Fieldays 2016.

Waikato Milking Systems has been named the 2016 Air New Zealand Cargo ExportNZ Exporter of the Year.

Dairy farmers will benefit from a new apprenticeship whose tradesmen will better design, install and maintain their milking, pumping and effluent systems.

Can farms make money – or at least save it – by extracting the energy latent in dairy effluent?

Before we all woke up to the fact dairy effluent is not a waste product, we tended to spread it rather 'inelegantly' on paddocks.