Health and safety is an important part of any business – it’s the right thing to do by your workers, and you also have obligations under the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 (HSWA).

Sometimes the simplest product design can be uncannily clever and offer real benefits to the end user.

A test to detect Johne's Disease and pregnancy from a single milk sample in cattle is being developed.

An AgResearch study shows that dairy sheep appear to have lower nitrogen leaching per hectare than their bovine counterparts. Dr Diana Selbie has been leading the MBIE-funded project looking at the environmental footprint of dairy sheep. Its aim is to provide some hard data to back up claims that this industry is more environmentally friendly. Peter Burke reports...

One of the key speakers at a recent Massey University Wiltshire field day was Marton farmer Richard Morrison.

OPINION: The Hound was gobsmacked to learn that the NZ media's love affair with 'our' Jacinda took another great leap forward - or more correctly backwards - during the recent visit of Australian PM Scott Morrison.

A warm and settled autumn has given way to winter.

More evidence - if it was needed - that farming sector confidence is on the wane, burdened down by increasing red tape and workforce shortages.

National Fieldays 2021 has come and gone, with general consensus being that it was a good event.

Farmers are again the hapless targets of new government regulations - this time to reduce the country's car fleet carbon emissions.