It will likely be a case of second - or third - time lucky for the winner of the 2022 Valden Cow of the Year, with five of the six finalists of the prestigious Holstein Friesian cow competition having been nominated at least once before.

A major manufacturer and distributor of silage wrap has joined the Plasback agricultural plastics recycling scheme.

Maximising per-cow production has always been an interest of Manawatu dairy farmers Craig and Raewyne Passey - and Holstein Friesian cattle have proven the ideal breed to achieve this.

Rural insurer FMG has been named one of 40 Gallup Exceptional Workplaces from around the world.

Former Fonterra chairman John Monaghan says he's quite humbled to make the Queen's Birthday and Platinum Jubilee honours list.

Meat prices are undergoing their seasonal lifts, according to a report from ASB released last week.

Jacob Coombridge, a 22-year-old orchard supervisor at Webb’s Fruit, has won the 2022 Central Otago Young Grower competition.

The Government says it will take time to carefully consider the report from the He Waka Eke Noa partnership.

The chair of the Dairy Companies Association (DCANZ), Malcolm Bailey says a key outcome of He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN) is that it will resonate with our markets and customers who are saying they want to see our emissions coming down.

A young cow frolics in a paddock in the upper Brancott Valley, then gallops to the fence to see the treats in store.