OPINION: We hope the Green Party and its supporters are taking notice.

The New Zealand Dairy Event (NZDE), underway this week in Fielding, is pushing hard to become the country’s premier show destination for dairy cattle.

Ask Amber Carpenter about dairy farming and you'll hear the passion in her voice as she answers.

While dairy remains the biggest export earner for the NZ primary sector, it is facing some challenges in the coming two years.

Following two consecutive Global Dairy Trade (GDT) price rises this year, overall prices now sit at their highest since June 2023.

The absence of Chinese processors at dairy auctions is failing to keep global prices down.

Having acquired the distribution rights for the German Horsch brand earlier in the year, Carrfields took the opportunity to showcase the products at a Feilding farmers day late last year.

Warm summer weather heightens the risk of flystrike.

A research project breeding sheep which emit less methane, with the potential to reduce methane emissions if these sheep can be farmed throughout New Zealand, has picked up a prestigious award.

There's a serious message behind two new East Coast Farming Expo initiatives.