The world economy has veered into difficult and dangerous waters, suggesting 2016 will be a long hard year of slow recovery in prices in global food commodity markets, including dairy.

With the new year comes a new range from the Massey Ferguson Camp – the 7700 series, which will take the place of the award winning 7600 series.

Farmgard has recently expanded its already extensive range with the addition of Rolland muck-spreaders.

IrrigationNZ has shortlisted four finalists for its Innovation in Irrigation Award rather than the usual three, for the second time only.

Major changes to this year's New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards regional competition winners' field days aim to increase participation and exposure for all those involved.

Onfarm cash income of farmers from all milk production this season will be under $4/kgMS, according to DairyNZ.

Alice Rule is one step closer to developing an app to provide grape growers with simple, intuitive representations of data to help them become more sustainable.

Golbal milk price recovery could be "slow and painful", with doubts now cast over when the turnaround may come in the next season.

The Southern Field Days (SFD) is a major agricultural event held every two years at Waimumu, 12km from Gore, Southland.

West Coast dairy farmer Renee Rooney and her husband Greg farm in the small settlement of Inchbonnie, near Greymouth.