A large portfolio of South Waikato dairy farms and one drystock property, converted by Carter Holt Harvey from forestry land, have now all sold.

Anchor's new light proof milk bottles can now be fully recycled in New Zealand.

Westland Milk says its new infant formula range launched in China last week is attracting strong interest from consumers.

Is this the industry's next supersire? CRV Ambreed certainly thinks so.

Fonterra Shareholders Council chairman, Ian Brown and deputy chairman Philip Palmer have been re-elected for another term.

GLOBAL DAIRY prices will remain elevated, but keep drifting down slowly from April highs, say two major bank economists.

AN ATTEMPT by a central North Island Maori trust to buy two dairy farms owned by the Chinese company Shanghai Pengxin has been rejected, despite the Chinese company having asked the trust to put in a bid.

MORE DIVERSITY of pasture species diversity could give dairy farmers more options for managing environmental impacts and improving pasture resilience during drought, says Dr Sharon Woodward, DairyNZ senior scientist. 

SCHOOL CAREERS advisors’ bias against farming, and high-schoolers’ ignorance of farming career opportunities, are barriers to the youngest and brightest thinking about working in the industry, says Northland farmer and LIC director Murray Jagger.

WHEN COWS hit the sack in a free-stall barn, they’d rather be on sand than a waterbed, a team of researchers at Massey University has found.

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