A 12-year-old bull with over 150,000 daughters has been inducted into an elite animal ‘Hall of Fame’ for his outstanding contribution to dairy herd improvement in New Zealand.

The dairy sector has launched a new workforce plan setting out how it will attract, retain and grow the farm workforce in the next decade.

A wetter than usual irrigation season has hindered data collection efforts for Canterbury dairy grazers Gary and Penny Robinson.

Mid-Canterbury farm manager Darryl Oldham has taken out the 2022 Rabobank Management Project Award, a business management prize for up-and-coming farmers.

OPINION: New Zealand is a trading station. We are respected by the world and the best at what we do.

OPINION: Understandably the dairy sector is very unhappy about the recent free trade agreement that New Zealand has signed with the European Union.

OPINION: The heat is on in India. In some parts of India, the temperature gauge has hit 50 degree Celsius - bad news for the world's largest milk producer.

OPINION: The war in Ukraine is causing massive losses for the country's farmers and these include dairy farmers.

OPINION: Clearly not everyone is happy with the free trade deal signed recently with the European Union.

OPINION: For the past few years the ag sector and dairy farmers have cried out for more overseas workers but for most past their pleas fell on deaf years.

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