OPINION: We hope the Green Party and its supporters are taking notice.

The story of one of the Waikato’s least known philanthropic entities has been published for the first time.

According to the New Zealand Dairy Statistics report, dairy sector production held strong in the face of difficult climate conditions throughout the 2022/23 season.

Cows benefit from robotic milking. They are more relaxed, healthier, and reward farmers with more milk.

Ian & Carmen Comins, Kihikihi, set up their farming operation in 2018, starting with 80 cows and working on increasing to 110, saw many attractive benefits to putting in robots, starting with just one robot they put another in 2020.

It's a wee issue but with a big environmental impact, and a new award-winning technology developed by AgResearch may help farmers to address it.

OPINION: On tackling methane emissions, global animal health giant DSM will be hoping for a more sympathetic reception from the new Government when it comes to Bovaer, its feed additive that reduces methane emissions in livestock.

The South Island Dairy Event (SIDE) is returning to Lincoln University next year.

The days of farmers facing an avalanche of regulations around how they farm will be a thing of the past, says National's new Northland MP Grant McCallum.

Hamish McKay is probably best known as one of the nation’s top sports journalists – but he’s a country lad at heart.