An award winning rotary milking technology is helping a New Zealand company make inroads into overseas markets.

Four Fonterra farmers will travel to Sri Lanka this year as part of a new farmer volunteer scheme to work with their Sri Lankan counterparts.

Federated Farmers is calling for the Government to apply diplomatic pressure with European countries wanting to move backwards towards more regulation.

Expect the volatility in the international dairy market to be around for some time.

More developments in dairy processing operations, this time in Northland, are yet another nail in what must not be allowed to become Fonterra's coffin.

Former Fonterra director Greg Gent says the co-op's discussion booklet on governance isn't thought-provoking.

Global fertiliser prices are slumping – good news for cash-strapped farmers.

The world economy has veered into difficult and dangerous waters, suggesting 2016 will be a long hard year of slow recovery in prices in global food commodity markets, including dairy.

Analysts are now picking a dairy price recovery by the end of the year. Haven't they said that for the last three years?

Fonterra's joint venture with Chinese infant food company Beingmate is a step closer to fruition.