The exceptionally low milk price has dealt a blow to Landcorp, forcing it to post a half year profit to December 31, 2014 of just $1 million, down 92% on the same period in the previous year. 

Official declaration that the South Island’s drought is a medium-scale adverse event has been widely welcomed by farmers and their representatives.

A slump in farmer confidence has seen Federated Farmers' new-season 2015 Farm Confidence Survey move further into negative territory.

Talk about opposite ends of the spectrum. One is a Kiwi, born and bred on a sheep and beef farm and has gone back to the farm after 20 years. The other is a Chinese woman who had never been near a farm before a New Zealand visit and thinks cows and calves are “so cute”.

Rabobank is to open a second branch in Northland, at Dargaville. It has had a branch at Whangarei for 10 years.

Summer has come and like clockwork so has the hot, dry, windy weather that is synonymous with droughts.

For the first time ever, New Zealand beef exports (October-December 2014) have exceeded lamb exports in value.

Is history set to repeat itself in Silver Fern Farms’ director elections?

Stock prices have tumbled and feed values are starting to climb as dry becomes drought in the east of the South Island.

Sheep and beef farmers on the North Island east coast are getting nervous about the lack of rain, according to Gisborne-based AgFirst consultant Peter Andrew.