Fonterra will this month recoup $193 million from its farmers -- some of the special loans made two years ago at the depth of the dairy downturn.

As an employee, attending a contract negotiation can be as nerve wracking as waiting on a report card.

A new nutrient management tool offers farmers a high degree of control and reporting when applying nutrients, its maker says.

Doing it once and doing it right is a great guiding philosophy for upgrading farm effluent systems.

Lower replacement rates and higher body weight/lower stocking rates are the two most effective of five available ways of cutting dairy greenhouse gas emissions, a scientist has told a workshop for rural professionals.

The confidence boost from winning the 2010 Dairy Trainee of the Year award is propelling a young sharemilker along a valuable career track, he says.

Auckland secondary schoolers will soon get a close look at farming without travelling far.

National’s foreign spokesman Gerry Brownlee last month addressed the Canterbury Employers Chambers of Commerce about the headwinds facing global trade, including geo-political issues.

Bay of Plenty Regional Council is offering free resource consents to landowners to move to the next stage of a plan change associated with reducing nitrogen leaching into Lake Rotorua.

Long-serving Zespri executive Dan Mathieson has been appointed the company’s new chief executive.