The Ministry for Primary Industries says “suspicious” test results for the bacterial cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis on two more farms in the South Canterbury region are not dashing hopes for containment and eradication.

High praise for the help DairyNZ provides to its levy payers.

Fonterra farmers are worried that suppliers are leaving the co-op.

There is no rural-urban divide over water quality, says Fonterra chairman John Wilson.

Fonterra farmers are closely watching the co-op’s shaky investment in Chinese food company Beingmate, says Fonterra shareholders council chairman Duncan Coull.

Former Fonterra director Leonie Guiney left the co-op in controversial circumstances.

Fonterra's forecast milk price of $6.75/kgMS is looking shaky, bank economists agree.

New Zealand recorded its lowest lamb prevalence level of sheep measles in ten years, says the project manager for Ovis Management Ltd, Dan Lynch.

The start of the harvest season brings thoughts such as ‘there aren’t enough hours in the day’ and for farmers and contractors alike the dream of more engine power.

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) wishes to set the record straight regarding the article titled ‘Imported semen fingered for M.bovis outbreak’ in Rural News October 24.