OPINION: Your canine crusader knows there is a great deal of unease - especially in rural NZ - about the Government's three waters reforms.

With docking - or tailing - underway in many areas, Beef+Lamb New Zealand is reminding farmers about the new tail length requirements.

A major upheaval in the global beef market isn't expected to translate into gains for New Zealand exporters.

The Ballance Farm Environment Awards has launched a new Catchment Group Award as part of its 2021 awards programme.

Hang in there - don't give up on wool!

Meat Industry Association chair John Loughlin says China is one of the most demanding export markets in the world.

Farmers with irrigators blown over and damaged in a pair of back-to-back windstorms may not get them working again this side of Christmas, according to Mid-Canterbury Federated Farmers president David Clark.

Singapore-based Olam Food Ingredients says its proposed milk plant in South Waikato is the first phase of an ambitious development plan.

Nominations are open for Fonterra's board election but a repeat of the drama that rocked the vote three years ago can be ruled out.

Fifth generation farmer Louis English and his wife Angela milk 850 cows on a 335ha family farm at Dipton West, Southland.