Traditional spreading via tankers or umbilical systems have typically discharged effluent onto splash-plates, resulting in small droplet sizes, which in turn lead to odours, but probably more importantly, the loss of nitrogen by volatilisation.

A Taranaki couple that took an unconventional route into dairy farming is proving there is more than one way to blaze a trail.

New Zealand Animal Evaluation Ltd (NZAEL) says changes to fertility estimated breeding value (EBV) will provide more accurate information to dairy farmers and artificial breeding companies ahead of the next mating season.

Alliance Group has been awarded five gold medals for its beef, lamb and venison at the Outstanding NZ Food Producers Awards.

OPINION: It's the season of Government u-turns on key policies and farmers are hoping it will extend to the ban on live cattle exports.

When it comes to making the best butter in Australia, it seems there's no one better than Fonterra Brands.

The first shipment of the 2023 New Zealand kiwifruit season departed the Port of Tauranga yesterday, carrying approximately 2,500 tonnes (over 600,000 trays) of Zespri SunGold Kiwifruit to Japan.

The minimum wage increase set for 1 April will cut into the horticulture industry’s already tight margins and put increased financial pressure on a sector decimated by bad weather.

Martin Bennett has been a dairy farmer for nearly half a century, so he's seen his fair share of change in the industry over that time.

Milk from cows bred for low milk urea nitrogen and fed on plantain pastures may have human health benefits as well as environmental advantages, according to research by the Lincoln University Pastoral Livestock Production Lab.