A total 26,648 people came through the gate for the first day yesterday of the New Zealand National Agricultural Fieldays at Mystery Creek.

A Kiwi company with an innovation and technology focus has invented the first ever New Zealand-made electronic milk meter designed to use every milking, every day.

The 2013 New Zealand kiwifruit season has already set records for the best-tasting Zespri Kiwifruit ever.

Fonterra farmers in the Tasman region hung up their milking aprons and got out the gardening gloves to teach local kids about life on a dairy farm during the winter months.

Michael Stein, a former director of quality for one the world's leading companies in paediatric nutrition, will join Synlait Milk as general manager quality later this month.

DESPITE DECADES of research and control measures, mastitis doggedly remains the single most costly animal health issue on New Zealand dairy farms today, says animal health company Virbac Stockguard. 

AUTOMATED milking machines and calf feeders are letting four Waikato dairy farmers take farming easier while retaining healthy businesses.

KIA MOTORS plans to launch five new models – perhaps even seven – this year.

DOUBLING NEW Zealand’s primary exports to $60 billion by 2025 is “a challenge” but it is good to have something to aim for, Minister for Primary Industries Nathan Guy says.

THE FACTIONS once warring over the South Island’s Mackenzie Basin appear to have agreed to a collaborative process of landscape management.