Rural retailer and supplier Farmlands is being accused of going off the rails and shareholders are being urged to take back control of the co-operative.

Fonterra chair Peter McBride says the co-operative isn't thinking about offering farmers any financial incentives for lowering their on-farm emissions profile.

It's still taking some farmers around the Northern Hawke's Bay town of Wairoa twice as long to get to Gisborne or Wairoa because the bridge across the Te Reinga river is still not fixed.

Silver Fern Farms is facing "a huge amount of headwinds".

North Otago farmer Jane Smith is questioning the modus operandi of AgriZeroNZ - the industry and government partnership working to find a solution to reducing farm methane emissions.

Rural retailer and supplier Farmlands concedes it has had a challenging year.

‘Disappointing’ is how Alliance Group is describing its latest annual result.

Rural insurer FMG has paid out $228 million to communities impacted by two major weather-related events - Cyclone Gabrielle and the Auckland Anniversary Weekend floods.

Pāmu is celebrating a significant milestone in its on-farm biodiversity protection and restoration programme, with over 10,000 hectares of important native habitat now protected in perpetuity with QEII covenants.

Food prices in New Zealand were 6.3% higher than a year ago but were cheaper in October 2023 than they were a month earlier, according to figures from Stats NZ.

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