A key contributor to the dairy industry for 20 years, Justine Kidd, was awarded the New Zealand Order of Merit in the New Year Honours for services to dairy and equestrian last month.

Dairy markets remain finely balanced but with most of the season’s product sold, farmgate milk price is expected to hold above $6/kgMS.

THE SHEEP industry, especially wool, is in a very serious situation and governments don’t help by adding increasing layers of complexity to regulation, says an industry veteran.

Beleaguered Australian dairy co-op Murray Goulburn has appointed Ari Mervis as its new chief executive officer. He will start in his new role on February 13.

The long-running hotly contested Silver Fern Farms (SFF) and Shanghai Maling partnership is now complete.

New Zealand's primary exports will be down slightly next year, but will quickly pick up in 2018.

A new $240 million mozzarella plant announced today will double Fonterra’s capacity to produce its revolutionary individually quick frozen (IQF) mozzarella.

The global supply/demand is beginning to rebalance, says Fonterra chairman John Wilson.

Fonterra has announced the launch of a new range of premium Anchor products in China, in response to the ongoing growth in demand for safe, high-quality dairy nutrition.

With consumer preferences changing, farmers are faced with a choice between intensive farming with all the technologies.