With five million calves expected in the next eight weeks, it is a busy season for Christchurch firm Woolover, which makes wool covers for calves, lambs and kids, and for adult animals.

Canadian-owned Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Company, Victoria, saw its net profit slump 88% last year.

Embattled Australian co-op Murray Goulburn says it has lost about 3.6% of its milk supply as a result of farmer suppliers leaving.

It's a chilly wet afternoon in Taranaki and we've just sat down in front of a roaring fire after standing-off 370 dries for the night.

Reports that China has threatened action against key exports such as dairy and kiwifruit if New Zealand investigated a complaint about Chinese steel imports are "completely overblown".

Tractor sales are holding despite the dairy downturn, says NZ Tractor and Machinery Association president Mark Hamilton-Manns.

Cheese prices are falling worldwide and it's all to do with the milk glut.

In a matter of days – on August 1 – new regulations on bobby calves come into force.

Feds dairy chairman Andrew Hoggard says the Global Dairy Trade (GDT) auction needs some CPR to shock it back into life.

Displaying the motto 'to struggle through adversity makes success so much sweeter' on their website, Kalex wines sense a distinct parallel between owner Alex Kaufman's will to survive, and the challenging task of farming grapes in Central Otago.