Judges have awarded gold medals to 84 of the 1407 wines at this year's Air New Zealand Wine Awards.

The Government has set a target to increase the value of New Zealand's food sector exports from $25 billion to $60b, meaning there will be an additional 50,000 jobs in the primary sector by 2025.

Meat Industry Excellence (MIE) chairman Peter McDonald has become the first major casualty of Shanghai Maling's takeover of Silver Fern Farms; he resigned from his post late, last week.

A challenge by a young Morrinsville boatbuilder to Kiwi milking systems makers in 2007 was picked up by just one – and the rest is history.

Silver Fern Farms chief executive Dean Hamilton says its capital structure has held back growth.

About 100 Silver Fern Farm shareholders have turned up for the company's special meeting in Dunedin.

Slurry tankers, once just a means of dealing with smelly waste, are getting more sophisticated.

Entries for the 2016 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards open on October 20, and organisers of the 11 regional competitions are ready to start hosting launch events.

Entries for the 2016 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards open on October 20, and organisers of the 11 regional competitions are ready to start hosting launch events.

The recent media statements from shareholder John Cochrane are "a total unknown and should be treated with extreme caution" says Silver Fern Farms.