Farmer co-op LIC has to win over a sceptical shareholder base before opening its automation business to outside investors.

Federated Farmers Dairy Chairman Andrew Hoggard addressed the Federated Farmers Dairy Industry Group this morning. Here's what he had to say.

The decision by a majority of the people in the UK to effectively vote themselves a recession is astounding. But then across the Atlantic one Donald Trump also has an unbelievable following which defies logic.

Your old mate notes that the Greens latest policy – in its desire to 'clean up the country's rivers' – is to implement a wholesale ban on future dairy farm conversions.

Beef + Lamb NZ says those who think Brexit won't have an impact on trade because the United Kingdom (UK) only takes 2% of New Zealand's exports, are missing the point.

While fodder beet has been grown in NZ for years, it has only recently gained popularity as an important dairy cow winter feed.

Bigger is not always better, but it seems that in business the size of the prize sometimes obscures the cost of pursuit.

Predator proof fencing made more attractive for the agriculture industry is a goal of a new predator research facility near Lincoln, Canterbury.

Maui Milk has acquired a 770ha farm near Lake Taupo and is converting it to a sheep milking operation aimed at achieving $4 million farm income within two to three years.

In 2008 I made a life changing decision to move from my urbanised hometown of Southampton, UK, to the rolling hills of the Matamata countryside, to be a farmer's wife to my NZ born husband.