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A Taranaki dairy farm has been fined $87,000 for employment breaches in a case reflecting the Labour Inspectorate’s intolerance of negligent employers.

Entering the Taranaki Ballance Farm Environment Awards was a great challenge for Opunake dairy farmers Kenneth and Rachel Short.

Taranaki's latest freshwater report shows ecological health for the region's waterways are showing some of the best results ever in the past 19 years.

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.

The $32 million expansion of Fonterra's Eltham site in Taranaki has reached a key milestone, with the first individually wrapped slices of cheese coming off its production line.

It was a Saturday afternoon and it had been raining for two days; Taranaki farmer Graham Fergus decided to move his ewes on a hilly paddock.

The low payout is not holding back flood-ravaged farmers in parts of Taranaki from replanting riparian areas or fencing waterways.

Taranaki farmers are bouncing back from the devastating floods two months ago.

Fonterra says its emergency response teams have contacted over 500 farms in flood-affected areas of lower North Island.

Lochraven Ace Rylee, from Kaponga in Taranaki, is the top cow in the Horowhenua.