High temperatures and humidity are prompting questions about farm animals’ production, along with their welfare, AgResearch says.

Over the next decade, the global middle class will grow from two billion to nearly five billion — an explosive rise considering the entire world population was only five billion in 1990. 

The kiwifruit industry is progressive and developing rapidly, says Stu Hutchings, who takes over as chief executive of Kiwifruit Vine Health (KVH) in March. 

A project to put fine-grained environmental mapping into the hands of farmers has been awarded one of the larger amounts in the latest round of Sustainable Farming Fund grants.

Dairy farmers buoyed by higher forecast milk payout are spending more on artificial breeding, says LIC.

Many young people, especially from urban backgrounds, don’t realise how broad the opportunities are in the rural sector, says Waikato University agribusiness and marketing student Celine Walters.

Farmers are in the poo again – the human kind, and they are sick of it.

New Zealand urgently needs a vision and a strategic plan for its agribusiness sector, says Agriculture and Associate Trade Minister Damien O’Connor.

The deal NZ has in the now-negotiated Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for the Trans-Pacific Partnership is the best we could have expected, says NZ’s special agricultural trade envoy.

All Southland plus Otago’s Queenstown Lakes, Central Otago and Clutha districts are now declared officially in drought.