Overwhelming retail demand has prompted South Canterbury start-up flour miller Farmers Mill to open a café to showcase its Homebake range and other products.

Metamorphic rocks and shallow schist soils are never far from mind in Central Otago where the wineries are enveloped in the dramatic physical presence of both. 

While the Government may have passed the Geographical Indications Act back in 2006, it is only now that it is gaining traction.

The 11 finalists in the 2015 New Zealand Sharemilker/Equity Farmer of the Year competition have travelled diverse pathways to get to their current positions.

Grass harrows with seed boxes have been around for some years and have largely been seen as an easy, low cost option for sowing small seeds into cultivated ground.

In an attempt to beef up milk cooling temperature standards MPI has proposed changes that will affect new dairy installations from June 1, 2016 and existing plant from 2018.

Fonterra has wisely decided to stall the expensive rebrand of RD1 to Farm Source.

With the completion of the 11 regional competitions, the New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards have now picked the 33 qualifiers for 2015 final.

Complex and rapidly changing patterns in global food consumption, manufacturing, and retailing are creating a completely new range of problems in food safety, says a senior Lincoln University lecturer.

I grew up in town and one of my distinct memories of summer and autumn when we went to visit our farming friends was the smell of silage.