Synlait's final average total milk price for FY18 has been announced as $6.78/kgMS.

A billion-dollar drop in Fonterra’s fortunes leaves the co-op vulnerable to increasing competition, says Federated Farmers Dairy president Chris Lewis.

Fonterra has posted a $196 million loss for 2018, the first in the co-op’s 17-year history.

Rural real estate sales in autumn this year were down on both the number of sales and price per hectare versus the same period last year. 

Dunsandel farmer Michael Woodward may be Federated Farmers North Canterbury dairy chairman but his real passion is the angora goats he inherited from his father John.

Fonterra is “very comfortable” with its $7/kgMS farmgate milk price forecast for the 2018-19 season, says chairman John Wilson.

Fonterra farmers will get an extra 20c/kgMS for milk supplied to the co-op this season.

A 1000-head barn and automated milking system is the centrepiece of an impressive family farm in east Germany.

The benchmarking survey of the New Zealand wine industry took a new turn in 2017, with Deloitte and ANZ collaborating together to provide the report.

Falling milk production due to weather constraints has forced Fonterra to reduce sales volumes across its entire product range.