Farmers are being warned to assess the risks to their herds from the tick-borne disease Theileria if they are moving stock this autumn and winter.

Award-winning Tasmanian farmer Ken Lawrence opened his farm to his peers last month.

It may be dry onfarm right now, but we’ll soon be heading through autumn to winter.

DairyNZ is advising drought-stricken farmers to dry off early rather than continue milking with bought-in feed.

First-time entrant Richard Ash has won the 2015 Manawatu Sharemilker/Equity Farmer of the Year title.

The Saint Peter’s School-Lincoln University demonstration dairy farm at Cambridge in the Waikato has secured two sponsors.

I never thought when I entered farming politics that there would be so much talk about the stuff that comes out of the back end of a cow.  The polite term is ‘effluent’ of course; not polite are its effects and the costs of managing it.

Australia's biggest dairy processor, Murray Goulburn, will hold an extraordinary meeting in April to seek supplier approval to list on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX).

Getting effluent issues under control before the council pays you a visit was the big point of interest at the recent Effluent Expo at Mystery Creek.

A suggestion that New Zealand farmers should house more cows hasn’t gone down well with one industry leader.