Federated Farmers Dairy chairman Andrew Hoggard says subsidies and support payments to farmers are partly responsible for the shock rise in global milk production.

Failing to market our products properly is costing us billions, says Jacqueline Rowarth, agribusiness professor at the University of Waikato.

An animal nutritionist is urging farmers to look deeper than body condition score for a true understanding of their cows' skeletons in assessing their health.

Shanghai Pengxin recently showed off its upgrade of the former Crafar farms it bought in the central North Island in 2012.

PPP Industries will use the Central Districts Field Days to showcase its new Super Sensor Jetter.

Massey Ferguson's Beauvais facility in Picardy is home to Massey Ferguson in Europe and produces MF tractors from 75-400hp.

The president of Shanghai Pengxin Investments in New Zealand, Terry Lee, says the company's future investment in the NZ dairy industry is being thwarted.

A new training facility for aspiring dairy farmers and herd and farm managers in the central North Island has its first intake of students.

The world has changed and we need to understand that, says Mike Petersen, special agricultural trade envoy.

Former Fonterra director Greg Gent says grass will become fashionable again as the effects of lower dairy prices continue.