Fonterra farmers are picking up the tab of about 30 fellow shareholders forced to dry off due to damage caused by Cyclone Gabrielle.

Ireland's Minister of Agriculture, Food and Marine blew the whistle just moments after he and NZ's Minister of Agriculture Damien O'Connor concluded their formal talks in Wellington.

Beef + Lamb New Zealand says it is open to providing farmers with "additional comfort" around how it balances the needs of all levy payers.

Beef + Lamb NZ chair Andrew Morrison has been dumped and will stand down at this week's annual meeting (Thursday March 30).

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.