THE NEW Zealand Transport Agency is reminding agricultural contractors they may need to apply for a work time variation to complete critical seasonal tasks such as spraying, harvesting or sowing.

The 2012 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards have received a record number of entries.

FARMER CONFIDENCE has waned slightly in the past quarter.

DAIRY COMMODITY prices dipped overnight on Fonterra’s GlobalDairyTrade platform with the trade weighted index of all commodities down 1.6%.

FONTERRA IS on the slippery slope towards demutualisation and a board “update” on the cause, the Trading Among Farmers proposal, yet again failed to recognise this, says one of a growing number of shareholders calling for a second vote on the proposal.

ALLIANCE GROUP has a new face at the board table: Maniototo farmer Dawn Sangster.

New Zealand’s competitive advantage as the world’s largest and most efficient producer of velvet is being frittered away by market ill discipline and an obsession with competition at the farm-gate, says a producer-owned co-operative.

Lincoln University appears to be running the gauntlet of a green-lobby backlash by awarding an international alumni medal to a palm oil company chief executive.

HELP IS needed to pack and distribute food hampers to agencies working with Christchurch’s most vulnerable people in what Federated Farmers says will be the Farmy Army’s last operation.

For a man who co-founded the world's largest wine competition, Charles Metcalfe had a relatively easy task at hand as part of the senior judging panel at this year's Air New Zealand Wine Awards.