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The eight organisations that formed a Bobby Calf Action Group at the end of 2015 are well advanced on a range of initiatives ensuring best practice handling and management of bobby calves.

Forest owners say kinks in the laws covering the release of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) need to be ironed out.

Northlanders are encouraged to get out and support their rural community when the region's biggest agricultural event is held later this week.

The man who threatened to put 1080 into infant formula has been named as Jeremy Hamish Kerr, 60, of Auckland.

As a dairy farmer I'm looking for a reason at the moment to help me focus on the positive points of farming in Taranaki.

Fonterra been told to improve its communication with farmer shareholders.

A member poll by Federated Farmers shows 11.1% of dairy farmers are now under pressure by banks over their mortgages. 

Subsidies handed to European farmers are partly responsible for the dip in global dairy prices, says Federated Farmers Dairy chairman Andrew Hoggard.

Federated Farmers has welcomed the release of the Government's discussion paper on freshwater management as a "useful next step".

Federated Farmers is calling for the Government to apply diplomatic pressure with European countries wanting to move backwards towards more regulation.