The milk pricing system in Australia, with its lack of transparency and risk mitigation tools across the industry, is holding back expansion of dairying and needs to be improved.

Science backs what humans need to thrive, and DairyNZ wellness and wellbeing specialist Dana Carver is keen for dairy farmers to benefit from such science to stay strong and healthy.

Southland farmer Dylan Ditchfield is asking the big question of dairy farmers during his workshop at the South Island Dairy Event.

The GlobalDairyTrade price index remained unchanged after last night's event – but key product, whole milk powder, was down 4.5%.

The latest KPMG Agribusiness Agenda confirms Federated Farmers thinking that the primary sector needs to do more to meet the changing needs of consumers and the wider public.

The chief executive of DairyNZ, Dr Tim Mackle, is the winner of the 2016 Landcorp Agricultural Communicator of the Year.

Southland dairy farmers are urged to take it slow and steady when transitioning dairy cows onto fodder beet crops this season.

A grass-only farm system showed the highest operating profit – slightly above PKE – in the first year of a three year trial at the Northland Agricultural Research Farm.

The month has been challenging for Australian dairying, the two largest companies' milk price revisions having hit many southern producers in the short term.

Idyllic scenes of cows grazing on lush grass in patchwork meadows amidst rolling hills recalls British dairy farming in the 1800s.