Rural retailer RD1 has acquired Ruawai Farm Supplies, Northland. The acquisition takes the RD1 store network to 65 stores nationwide.

The New Zealand Farm Environment Award Trust, the organisation behind the highly successful Ballance Farm Environment Awards, has a new name.

Dairy Womens Network is teaming up with industry training organisation, AgITO to open up further education possibilities for dairying women.

It runs in the family in Southland: Pete Gardyne and his younger brother Richard will both be heading to grand final in May after they took out the Otago/Southland Regional Final titles for The National Bank Young Farmer Contest and TeenAg Competition respectively in the weekend.

New Zealand Pork chief executive Sam McIvor is stepping down after nearly six years in the role.

THE UK'S largest fresh milk supplier, Robert Wiseman Dairies, looks likely to be bought by Germany's Theo Muller Group.

THE GOVERNMENT’S proposed changes to dairy industry regulations are plain wrong. They are a kick in the guts for Fonterra’s 10,500 hardworking farmers. 

FONTERRA’S RECENT decision to cut local milk prices was welcomed by various consumer groups and others – including many self-serving politicians – all around New Zealand.

FOUR WEST Coast students have won university scholarships from Westland Milk Products.

MUCH OF my work in recent months has been on strategic reviews. These assignments involve business health checks to benchmark performance against best practice for key areas such as feed strategies, people management, budgeting and reporting. They take me into privileged territory as I compare the standards being achieved by farming operations against what I know is possible. The benefit is a business plan that is clear about new opportunity and identifies factors that risk holding the business back.