Australia's new dairy kingpin is urging co-ops in Europe and New Zealand to rein in milk production and help stamp out price volatility.

Waikato farmer Zach Mounsey (28) has been recognised as a “focused leader”, winning a prestigious New Zealand Young Farmers Excellence Award. 

LIC has launched a satellite-based pasture evaluation service, calling it a giant leap forward for pasture management.

Export commodity prices have started 2018 on a firm footing thanks in part to the buoyant global trade backdrop. 

Trade Minister David Parker this month opened the APEC Business Advisory Council meeting in Auckland with a speech about the new Government’s approach to trade. Here are excerpts. 

The Plant & Food Research team that took on Psa-V disease and won have received a prize worth $500,000.

A former cocktail bartender, an award-winning contract milker and a drone-flying drystock farmer will face off in the Taranaki/Manawatu regional final of the FMG Young Farmer of the Year contest.

European dairy co-op Arla Foods will spend $850 million this year to expand its business.

A dwindling supply of supplementary feed is one problem facing Southland farmers working through drought.

‘Bizarre’ is how DairyNZ’s general manager for extension, Andrew Reid, describes the current season with its weird mixture of floods and droughts in regions that normally don’t get these conditions.