It's been called the most difficult season in 45 years.

Marlborough still maintains the title of New Zealand garlic king, producing about 70% of the country’s total crop.

Zespri will this year issue licences for an additional 700ha of SunGold kiwifruit and 50ha of organics.

Shaun Murray is at the coalface of New Zealand’s $1 billion export infant formula industry.

A big reduction in European stocks of skim milk powder (SMP) was behind its whopping 10.3% rise in price at last week’s auction, economists concur.

A farmgate milk price at the upper end of Fonterra’s forecast is now on the cards.

OPINION: Fonterra shareholders are starting 2019 with high expectations.

MyFarm has bought a 96ha property in Central Otago for its first cherry development.

Well-known Auckland kumara grower Fay Gock, the winner of horticulture’s Bledisloe Cup in 2013, died just before Christmas on December 21, aged 85.

New Zealand commodity prices are likely to feel downward pressure over the year, says ASB senior rural economist Nathan Penny.