New Zealand’s second largest milk processor, Open Country Dairy has appointed a new chief executive.

Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) is reminding farmers to protect their families and livestock as cases of Salmonella and Leptospirosis rise in the wake of Cyclone Gabrielle.

At Westmoreland Estate Ltd’s three dairy farm offices in the Waikato hang large world maps.

Waikato share farmer Aleisha Broomfield has gone one better than her effort last year to win the regional Share Farmer of the Year award.

OPINION: The genie is well and truly out of the bottle.

OPINION: Money donated to the Farmers Adverse Events Trust Cyclone Gabrielle appeal will directly help the farmers and growers hit hardest by flooding, silt and slips.

Dairy Commodity markets have traversed softer ground for 2023, and this is now reflected in Fonterra’s new forecast farmgate midpoint of NZ$ 8.50/kgMS.

A Give-a-Little page set up in the aftermath of Cyclone Gabrielle has seen farmers from across the globe band together to support their peers on the East Coast.

Ngai Tukairangi Trust chair Ratahi Cross was one of many people to have a narrow and frightening escape from the floodwaters that struck around Puketapu, north east of Napier and adjacent to Eskdale.

Greenhouse gas science communicator Dr Frank Mitloehner says the New Zealand Government must work with farmers to achieve climate goals, not against them.