Cropping farmers are being urged to consider the true cost of winter grazing to their businesses.

In February the management team at Lincoln University were wringing their hands as the season appeared to be turning to custard, but at the latest field day the tone was much more upbeat.

To call it a perfect storm trivialises the difficulties primary producers are facing in the balance between environment, welfare (human and animal) and economics. 

You know something is up in the farming world when three different government agencies are all casting a critical eye over the sector.

Rural agribusiness company the Carr Group has further expanded its footprint in the sector in New Zealand. 

Australia's largest dairy co-op has voted to adopt Fonterra’s TAF-style capital structure.

The dairy industry is facing a “perfect storm” but innovative business people on farms will carry New Zealand through the cycle, the NZ Dairy Industry Awards final was told.

Milk New Zealand Holding Ltd, which took over the Crafar Farms, has been lauded as a “great example” of the success of foreign investment in NZ at the NZ China Trade Association (NZCTA) Business Awards.

New Zealand sheep now tally just 29.8 million – a number not seen since during the Second World War.

A high-tech device designed to protect solo workers, like those working alone on farms, has been launched in New Zealand.