Favourable market conditions should underpin a second year of broad-based profitability for New Zealand agriculture. 

One of three candidates standing in the upcoming Beef + Lamb NZ directorship election is calling for more governance diversity.

A buoyant local economy should help make this year’s Southern Field Days a big success, says event chairman Logan Evans.

Now operating under a nitrogen cap – with a cap also on stock units -- Mike Barton of Taupo’s Glen Emmreth Farm no longer runs breeding cows.

Dairy farmers buoyed by higher forecast milk payout are spending more on artificial breeding, says LIC.

Red meat export receipts reached a record high for the December quarter of the 2017-18 season.

A young dairy farming couple have increased their equity by at least $500,000 in two-three years on a less-than-ideal Far North farm and despite two years of low dairy payout.

Food and environmental activists are on record as suggesting New Zealand should be ruminant-free to create a cleaner greener country.

“Uncertainty is the only certainty there is and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.”

Meat co-op Alliance Group has doubled its operating profit to $20.2 million for the year to September 30, 2017.