Rural mental health has been given a funding boost of $600,000.

A planting partnership between an award-winning Waikato farmer and children from his local school is bearing environmental fruit on many levels.

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) says the outlook for New Zealand primary industries is positive.

Many NZ farmers have lost the art of all-grass farming and rely too heavily on supplements.

The milk pricing system in Australia, with its lack of transparency and risk mitigation tools across the industry, is holding back expansion of dairying and needs to be improved.

More benefits accrue from having a wintering shed onfarm than may first appear.

Artist Ben Pearce, of Napier, has won the big prize in the 2016 Fieldays No.8 Wire National Art Awards.

The chief executive of DairyNZ, Dr Tim Mackle, is the winner of the 2016 Landcorp Agricultural Communicator of the Year.

The successful conclusion of negotiations and the lifting of nuclear-related sanctions on Iran are welcome news for major dairy exporters.

The month has been challenging for Australian dairying, the two largest companies' milk price revisions having hit many southern producers in the short term.