LIC has purchased the majority interest of its Brazilian genetics distributor, NZ Brasil Genetics Producao Animal Ltd.

After six months on the back burner the Southern Dairy Development Trust is about to turn up the gas on fundraising for a 3-400ha research and demonstration farm.

Dairy farming is the backbone of New Zealand and will continue to be so for a long time, says Whakatane’s Doug Bull, recipient of the Queens Service Medal in the New Year Honours.

Lochraven Ace Rylee, from Kaponga in Taranaki, is the top cow in the Horowhenua.

Finland's largest dairy farm Finnmilk has embraced automatic milking.

Around Christmas time stock rustling seems to rear its head and this holiday season has been no different.

Judges could not whittle down finalists for Dairy Women’s Network’s 2015 Dairy Woman of the Year to the usual three candidates because of the calibre of nominees – so four women are standing this year.

We're past the halfway mark of the season. While we hope for a ‘normal’ summer where ‘the average rain’ will fall each month, we are mindful that decisions made within the next few months can impact milk production and herd reproduction for next season.

Farm to farm movements are being monitored and if you’re not recording them on NAIT expect a call, says Stu Hutchings of NAIT parent body Ospri.

Dairy farmers searching for efficiencies in their operation know that home-grown, fully-utilised pasture has always been the most cost-effective feed.