A ‘Proud to be a Farmer’ campaign is to be launched by a group of influential New Zealand and Australian livestock primary producers.

Speaking to Rural News after his SIDE speech, Sir Ray Avery said he thinks the whole dairy industry is too “product focussed”.

Don't accept a second-rate health service just because you live in a rural area, delegates at last week’s South Island Dairy Event heard.

If there was one take-home message from the first day of last week’s South Island Dairy Event it was the need to plan.

There are reports of more than 2000 slips on roads alone and countless more on farms, plus 25 road closures and a dozen farms underwater in the area covered by the Horizons Regional Council. 

A recovery in global dairy prices is on the horizon but farmers may not benefit until next season, says Rabobank.

New Image's partner goat farm Oete Farms at Patumahoe will be the biggest in New Zealand when it grows from 2400 to 3000 goats next season, says Auckland-based New Image Group Ltd general manager Guy Wills.

Holstein Friesian New Zealand has elected its first female president at the recent annual conference.

A talk at the NZVA Dairying for the Future Conference in Queenstown on Friday presented findings on last winter’s swede related deaths.

A new means of monitoring change in the level of effluent ponds is now available to Southland farmers.