The low payout may starting to affect farm sales in the dairy sector.

Fonterra is being “commercially rational” by reducing the volumes sold on the Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction, says Fonterra managing director global ingredients, Kelvin Wickham.

A former head of state-owned farmer, Landcorp, says the only way the government can extract more money from the company is to sell some farms.

The lower dollar will put extra money in wool growers’ pockets but volatility in demand from China can be expected, say wool market experts.

Australian supermarkets have been in the gun for years for the way they treat suppliers and farmers. 

If you asked the average Queen Street office worker to describe a high input, high output farm they’d probably describe an operation on the flats whose owners relied on PKE and thought little about the environmental impact of their farm.

We might harp on about the increasing volatility and interconnectedness of commodity trends and forces. 

International dairy markets remain depressed, with abundant supply and lacklustre demand continuing to weigh on pricing. 

The 2015 National Fieldays should be “business as usual” despite the downturn in dairy prices, says chief executive Jon Calder.

Dairymen in California see themselves as the “star model for dairying” but they are far from creaming it.