Fifteen fibre-glass ‘cows’ have invaded Morrinsville in a show of street art that will be permanent and, hopefully, a signature icon for the town.

A last-minute turnaround decision by the Otago Regional Council was the last straw for Oamaru dairy farmer Robert Borst.

Farmers in Waikato region need to be aware that change is coming.

Farmers are doing well at collecting data, but must now look at how to manage that data and use it to make better on-farm decisions, says dairy farmer and agricultural data expert Hayden Lawrence.

Agriculture will remain under increasing scrutiny from regulators and consumers and it is up to the industry to educate them, says Landcorp's general manager of people and capabilities, Anna Cassel-Brown.

A Mackenzie Country farming couple were the big winners at last week’s 2015 Canterbury Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA), taking home the supreme winner and four other awards.

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

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.

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