Pasture growth and utilisation is becoming increasingly important as farm businesses face ongoing environmental and milk price challenges.

Pasture based farming is most profitable when the pastures are managed to provide the highest quality feed at all periods during the season, maximising the amount of pasture grown and eaten.

Having a skilled and motivated farm team is the foundation of a successful dairy farm.

Fonterra exported record volumes for the month of December 2015.

The NZ Veterinary Association and the Ministry for Primary Industries are warning farmers to be even more alert for facial eczema with the forecasted strong El Nino conditions.

Bucking public perception of dirty dairying – fanned by environmental groups and mainstream media reporting – West Coast dairy farmers have played a big part in cleaning up the biggest waterway in the region.

Rural News' irreverent and hypothetical look at what's happening in the farming world.

Landcorp Farming and Northland iwi Te Rarawa and Ngai Takoto have joined forces to run Sweetwater farm, a 2480ha property north-west of Kaitaia.

There's no doubt 2015 has been a tough year for those of us in the agricultural contracting sector.

The 'businessman' who threatened the NZ dairy industry with 1080 contamination in baby formula if use of the pest-killing poison wasn't terminated apparently intended to gain economic advantage for a product of his own.