Long-time Canterbury sheep farmer and woolgrower Joe Catherwood has diversified into sheep milking.

Beef + Lamb New Zealand warns that the country's meat producers face another tough year as demand for sheep and beef recovers slightly, but not enough to outweigh increases in on-farm costs.

OPINION: More than 100 farmers, rural professionals and international researchers recently took part in a webinar about breeding toward low-methane genetics as part of Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s Cool Sheep programme.

'El Nino has officially arrived.’

The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) is deciding whether there are grounds to reasses the use of the herbicide glyphosate in NZ.

In the light of a possible drought due to El Nino - particularly along the East Coast of the North Island - Beef + Lamb NZ is busy running workshops to help farmers in the region to cope with any eventuality.

As rain pours down on David Birkett's Leeston arable farm, he takes a sigh of relief ahead of the predicted dry summer.

The worst of the current dairy price cycle may be over, claims Westpac senior agricultural economist Nathan Penny.

DairyNZ's new chief executive Campbell Parker says the dairy sector should take lessons from the stalled primary sector climate action partnership He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN) and move forward.

A recently formed pressure group is upping its campaign against any implementation of a methane tax.