Westland Milk Products’ board chair, Pete Morrison has defended bonus payments to chief executive Toni Brendish and other top executives, criticised as having conflicts of interest.

A Taranaki family have proved that profitable dairying and paying special attention to the environment aren’t incompatible.

While electric and hybrid vehicles gain traction on our roads, the concept is largely missing from the rural and off-road markets. But Hisun Motors New Zealand is ‘dipping its toes’.

The big mixer wagons seen in New Zealand have a long way to go in size to rival the behemoths used in North America.

With saloon cars fading on buyers’ radar, Holden is confirming its focus on the ute and SUV market.

Horticulture NZ received high praise at an Australian horticultural conference last week.

An air of uncertainty hangs over the whole agri sector, says the ANZ’s managing director of commercial and agri, Mark Hiddleston.

Sheep farmers are in for another year of solid returns, says ASB’s senior rural economist Nathan Penny.

Government-owned farmer Landcorp (now called Pāmu) is claiming commercial sensitivity as the reason for refusing to reveal the cost of funding a publicity campaign about its operations on the website newsroom.co.nz.

Dairy farmers are being urged to tell authorities about “concerning activity” by helicopters and drones.

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