The pain scale medical professionals use with people isn’t applicable to animals. They can’t tell us whether they’re experiencing a 5 or a 9 out of 10. But that doesn’t mean they are not impacted by pain.

A Canterbury farmer has been disqualified from owning calves and fined $26,000 following the death of a large number of calves he was raising.

Travellers ditching their old footwear when returning to NZ from a Bali holiday could have farmers helping buy them a new pair.

During recent years West Coast farmer Andrew Robb has milked up to 925 cows on his 365ha (effective) dairy platform, but he’s driven numbers down since, and today is down to about 700 cows.

The dairy sector has launched a new workforce plan setting out how it will attract, retain and grow the farm workforce in the next decade.

Mid-Canterbury farm manager Darryl Oldham has taken out the 2022 Rabobank Management Project Award, a business management prize for up-and-coming farmers.

OPINION: The heat is on in India. In some parts of India, the temperature gauge has hit 50 degree Celsius - bad news for the world's largest milk producer.

Fonterra has finalised the sale of majority shares in the Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction.

Planning for the 2023 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards (NZDIA) is underway with national sponsors continuing to back the programme.

The McCullough Farm Partnership, adjacent to the shore of Lake Karapiro south of Cambridge, milks 610 crossbred Friesian cows, producing around 300,000 kgMS annually.