Banks may increasingly lose patience with farms with very high cost structures and very high debt burdens, warns Chris Bloor, financial systems analyst at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand.

As MPI keeps working to eradicate Mycoplasma bovis, it has warned farmers to be prepared for possible long-term management of the disease.

Holstein Friesian New Zealand (HFNZ) says its joint sire proving programme with CRV Ambreed is breaking records.

In what is a first for the New Zealand education sector and the wine industry, a school to teach winegrowing to secondary school students is about to open.

A biogas recovery system using methane from dairy effluent to generate electricity and heat water was one of three finalists in the Energy Technology of the Year award in the 2017 Deloitte Energy Excellence Awards.

Three agribusiness leaders have been elected to the board of rural insurer FMG.

Erin Atkinson has been named the Young Grower of the Year.

A new sheep milking business using a world-first combined milking/feeding platform will start operating by October.

Milk production in Wales has changed dramatically in the last 30 years: in 1984 the country had 6500 producers; now it has 1730 achieving the same production.

AgFirst dairy consultant Stacey Belton, Hamilton, has been named the Farmax Emerging Rural Professional of the Year. She beat four other contestants.