Rural communities in the Tasman District are being offered advice and support from the Ministry for Primary Industries to look after themselves and their animals.

A Hawkes Bay project aimed at cutting nitrogen losses has provided challenges and lessons for its farmers involved.

Plantain could ‘save’ some Manawatu dairy farmers faced with cutting nitrogen losses from pasture by 60%, comments DairyNZ.

Another New Year has begun and at least on the weather front appears to have started well with lots of warm, dry weather. Long may that continue!

The biggest New Zealand Winegrower event of the year has wrapped up.

Soil moisture is now decreasing nationwide but Fonterra’s latest Global Dairy Update shows milk collection was up 4% to December 31.

OPINION: Volatility? What volatility? Farmers are asking as global dairy prices rose for the fifth consecutive Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction last week.

Kiwi agritech start-up Halter, in Auckland, expects to commercially launch its GPS-enabled cow collars in April.

A group of high school students have spent four days on a live-in event at Waikato University to learn more about career opportunities in agriculture.

Being in an industry filled with so much passion is an aspect of dairying which Dairy Women's Network chief executive Jules Benton loves after nine months in the job.