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.

Manuka honey could long term earn more money for a central North Island Maori trust than its sheep and beef farming operation.

Landcorp, no longer threatened with sales of some of its farms, has reported an after-tax profit of $51.9 million for the year to August 31.

The 2018 financial year has begun with confidence high among dairy, beef and horticultural clients due to good commodity prices, says PGG Wrightson in its first quarter guidance update to shareholders.

The term ‘peak cow’ -- referring to the national dairy herd -- is gaining relevance for more individual farmers as they turn from peak cow numbers to peak per-cow performance.

The New Zealand meat industry could be hit by fallout from the tense and divisive Brexit negotiations.

Lamb, sheep and deer prices are likely to remain firm, but cow and bull prices could soften, according to the Alliance Group’s projections for the new season.

The slump in dairy prices over the past few seasons proved to have a silver lining for the woman who founded New Zealand’s first teaser bull leasing business.