Nominations are open for the 2015 Lincoln University Foundation South Island Farmer of the Year competition, and organisers are hoping for another record year.

Horticulture farmers are delighted with the plan to have visitors to New Zealand paying a share of the costs associated with protecting our nation's borders.

Farming is a lot more stressful than it used to be, which is why it is more and more important for farmers to know how to keep themselves healthy, according to organisers of the 2015 South Island Dairy Event (SIDE).

National's 2015 Budget has allocated extra funding to strengthen animal welfare systems and biosecurity.

A $10 million package over four years will bolster New Zealand's animal welfare systems, according to Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy.

Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy has met with drought-affected farmers in Cheviot, North Canterbury and says they are still feeling the impacts of drought.

ANZ has taken out CANSTAR's Best Agribusiness Bank award for 2015 – the fourth consecutive year it has won the award.

Farming innovation of the technology kind will be at the gates of East Coast farmers next April.

Since being awarded the Case IH franchise in 2009, Giltrap Agri-Zone has won an increasing share of the tractor market in the Waikato region. 

There are many ways to acquire the new machinery you need to have working your land and herds. 

As we approach National Fieldays, the foggy season has arrived in Waikato, but it’s not all gloom and doom.

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