Winston Peters' office loves to bag the dairy industry and Fonterra, mostly for all the wrong reasons.

Fonterra chairman John Wilson says dairy prices are expected to firm up early next year.

Fonterra shareholders will be watching hawk-eyed this week's annual general meeting in Waitoa.

A former Fonterra farmer director is warning that moves to downsize the co-op's board is fraught with risk.

A former chief executive of Australian dairy processor National Foods and Waikato dairy farmer Ashley Waugh has been elected to the Fonterra Board of Directors.

Beef + Lamb (B+LNZ) is calling for nominations to stand for two farmer-elected director positions on its board, as well as directors of the New Zealand Meat Board (NZMB).

Six young agriculture professionals have been shortlisted for the 2016 Zanda McDonald Award.

With developments in forage maize growing over the last decade – genetics to improve yields, pest resistance and reducing days to maturity – the arrival of a new planting concept looks to give maize growers another option.

Federated Farmers says this morning's Global Dairy Trade auction, which delivered a third straight drop in the price index, was disappointing but not unexpected.

The roadside lucerne paddock is freshly cut. The kettle is on the boil and Richard Loe is looking ruefully out his kitchen window, perched high on the north bank of the Waimakariri River.