Fonterra Director and Edgecumbe farmer Donna Smit was at a Dairy Women’s Network meeting in Auckland on April 6 when she heard of the state of emergency back home.

The country's second-largest dairy processor is to build a new plant in Waikato.

Farmers are concerned about a three-year cap on temporary work visas announced by the Government this week.

Telehandlers have brought about a big change in materials handling on farms, with increased lift and reach capacities that traditional tractor/loader combinations couldn’t achieve.

Biocontrol measures that helped Australian farmers control a serious dryland weed for 20 years may at last benefit New Zealand.

The immediacy of social media ensured that many dairy farmers shared in real time the horror of watching yet another PR disaster unfold on TV One’s Sunday programme last week.

Your canine crusader often hears claims that South Island’s West Coast is a backwater and behind the times.

Zespri will keep spending aggressively on marketing this year, says Jiunn Shih, the new global general manager marketing.

Today we live in an age when consumers are growing more aware of the products they consume.

Our staff reporters give a preview of Vintage 2017 across the country. This was the state of play at the time of writing in early March.