The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) has announced that it will lead a national effort to increase the number of New Zealanders trained to care for and handle companion animals during civil defence emergencies.

Lifting production by 30,000 kgMS without increasing cow numbers has demanded extra feed and better genetics for Bay of Plenty dairy farmers, Nigel and Dianne Payne.

What do you want from your pasture? That's the question top Massey University scientists were asking farmers at the 'Science for Farmers' site at Fieldays recently.

Troubled milk processor Synlait’s second largest shareholders remains coy on how it will vote at a special general meeting on Thursday.

Federated Farmers have reiterated their support for the coalition Government to abolish the present ban on the live export of animals.

Rangiora's Belbrook Farming Ltd should have been used to standing by the end of the 2024 HFNZ-Semex On-Farm Competition last month after having its name called not once, but six times throughout the awards ceremony.

DairyNZ has launched its new strategy with a great focus on impacts and outcomes for its levy-paying farmers.

One of New Zealand's largest dairy farmers won the 2024 'Food, Beverage and Fibre Producer' award at the NZ Primary Industries Awards.

Developing woodchip denitrifying bioreactors for mitigating nitrogen loads to New Zealand waterways won DairyNZ and the Institute of Environmental Science and Research (ESR) the research and science category in this year's Primary Industries NZ Summit Awards.

Growing up on a South Waikato sheep and beef farm, Penny Ranger has firsthand experience on the day-to-day challenges.