Fonterra is leading the industry in some areas of sustainability, says chief executive Miles Hurrell.

Fonterra has released its second annual Sustainability Report covering how the co-op is progressing towards its environmental, social and economic goals.

Getting mains power to remote stock troughs can run to $80,000 a kilometre, says solar power specialist Alastair Frizzell, of Frizzell Agricultural Electronics, of Kirwee, Canterbury.

Te Pari recently released its Racewell HD4, a four-way sheep drafter the company sees progressing the concepts in its HD3 and HD6 units in use in New Zealand and elsewhere.

It's an early winter morning, dark and chilly, but Northland dairy farmer Jane Hutchings couldn’t be happier.  

About 100 farmers turned out to the first Waikato Regional Council open days in Otorohanga and Reporoa last week to discuss the Healthy Rivers/Wai Ora Proposed Waikato Regional Plan Change 1.

Applications for funding from the Primary Industries Earthquake Relief Fund are now open, Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy has announced.

Horizons Regional Council chairman Bruce Gordon has proudly accepted a Morgan Foundation River Award for the Makuri River at Tuscan Hills.

While New Zealand is the land of the bale feeder that cleverly unrolls a bale in the paddock, much feed is wasted when stock trample it on the ground.

Digital innovation start-up company Job Done has won a deal with Fonterra to develop an app to save farmers time and money.