For Mokai dairy farmers Annabel and Dean Donovan, helping to nourish their local community by donating milk just makes sense.

OPINION: Kiwi farmers are the best in the world at innovating to solve whatever is thrown at them.

Rangiora's Belbrook Farming Ltd should have been used to standing by the end of the 2024 HFNZ-Semex On-Farm Competition last month after having its name called not once, but six times throughout the awards ceremony.

Farmers with experience and breeding knowledge are deeply concerned about the pressure to breed for low methane sheep traits and its effects on other important traits they have been pursuing over the last 100 years.

Farmlands shareholders have re-elected sitting directors Dawn Sangster and Gray Baldwin for another three-year term.

Dairy industry good organisation DairyNZ gets its first woman board chair in October.

"I'm not what you would consider a Formula One farmer, but I must be doing something right,” says Fonterra farmer Francis Smits, who is quick to point out that he and his wife Regina have a simple set up on their Reporoa farm.

We all recognise the symptoms of a classic down cow: dull eyes, sleepy, head down, poor responsiveness.

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Nothing beats the best bull. That’s the key message coming out of a series of workshops being run by Beef + Lamb NZ around the country.