A five year, $11 million research project has begun, aimed at producing new high value milk products. 

There's something in the milk produced in and around South Waikato farms.

The Global Dairy Trade had its eighth consecutive fall last week putting more downward pressure on Fonterra’s $6.75/kgMS milk price forecast, says BNZ senior economist Doug Steel.

The Government says it will be important to set the right 2050 target in its Zero Carbon Bill. 

Federated Farmers is extending its “deepest sympathy” to the family of a four-year-old boy found dead in a farm effluent pond near Harihari in south Westland.

New Zealand strawberry growers say there is no evidence to suggest any connection to the food safety scare engulfing Australian growers.

Overall the dairy industry is more professional and in a good space, but volatility will continue, says James Allen, retiring AgFirst chairman.

Corporate farmer Trevor Hamilton is full of praise for the incentive scheme Te Ara Miraka run by the Taupo dairy processor Miraka.

Synlait's final average total milk price for FY18 has been announced as $6.78/kgMS.

A leading corporate farmer is blaming Fonterra’s board for the co-op’s financial debacle, saying the directors run a system of “cloned governance”.