Dairy prices have ended a six month poor run, giving stronger hope to an $8 farmgate milk price this season.

Entries have opened for the 2021 Ballance Farm Environment Awards, including a new award.

Spring Sheep Company’s new chief executive Nick Hammond says the company’s in a high growth phase and on track to have over 40,000 sheep supplying milk in the next four years.

There's a two-way fight for one DairyNZ board seat as incumbent Jacqueline Rowarth takes on Waiuku farmer Stu Muir.

Co-operative businesses in New Zealand are thriving and coping well with the impact of Covid, according to Cooperative Business NZ chief executive Roz Henry.

The dairy industry, along with all primary sectors, are going to have to be very proactive and innovative over the next two to three years to deal with the uncertainties created by Covid-19.

We're very understanding on what's being put in place. That's the feedback that DairyNZ has been getting from farmers just prior to a government requirement that all essential workers, including dairy farmers, crossing the border into Auckland region must get a weekly Covid test.

A feed additive that reduces methane emissions in animals has received regulatory approval from two Latin American countries.

A Southland dairy industry leader says the Government's response to worker shortages in the dairy industry is a "cop out".

Visa applications for migrant dairy workers are being declined over a contentious 40-hour working week requirement by the Government.

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