Fonterra chairman John Wilson says farmers are very grateful to the co-op for bringing forward dividend payments.

Fonterra earnings and profit are well up for the first half of this financial year.

Fonterra chairman John Wilson says changes to its vendor payment system could have been handled better.

Fonterra Shareholders' Council chairman, Duncan Coull, said today's interim results announcement was in line with forecasts, and the expectations of the council.

Fonterra has delivered some good news to farmers.

Tough economic times are causing farmers to analyse every aspect of their business, right down to the performance of individual animals.

Relative industry and farming newcomers have scooped the major prizes at the 2016 Hawkes Bay/Wairarapa Dairy Industry Awards.

Growing up in urban South Auckland seems a world apart from working with South Island farmers.

More than 130 of Australasia's leading agribusiness professionals are gathering in Wellington today for the annual Platinum Primary Producers (PPP) Conference.

While Rakaia has its giant trout, Paeroa has a massive L&P bottle, Waipara now has an eight and a half metre windswept grapevine.