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Fonterra farmers are putting their co-op on notice over the decision to reduce milk price and not to pay any more dividend this year.

Fonterra’s shaky investment in Chinese food company Beingmate is heading for more trouble.

With New Zealand experiencing record-breaking heatwaves this summer, AgResearch scientists say farmed animals can be susceptible and the pressure is on farmers to manage it.

Federated Farmers says speculation around the cattle disease Mycoplasma Bovis and its origins is just adding more stress to worried farmers.

Dairy farmers looking to step off-farm and into the boardroom are being sought by DairyNZ.

Bacterial cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis has been confirmed on a farm in Ashburton.

Fonterra says this season’s milk production will be down 4% compared to last season.

Fonterra chairman John Wilson says as a farmer he is angry and disappointed with today's arbitration decision over the false botulism scare in 2013.

Farmers are backing moves by the Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) to cull animals on farms affected by the disease Mycoplasma bovis (M. bovis).

The Ministry of Primary Industries says work continues at pace on a large farming operation in the South Canterbury/Oamaru area to manage the bacterial cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis.