Here's another threat to the NZ dairy industry. US food giant Hormel is reporting a 32% lift in sales largely due to Muscle Milk. The product contains no milk, but that doesn’t seem to hold back its sales.

The need for farmers to have a sound strategy to avoid flip-flopping from year to year is now more important than ever. 

Knee-jerk spending cuts that compromise long-term productivity are a real risk in the face of the $4.50/kgMS payout forecast and probable low opening 2015-16 figure, leading farmers are warning.

Farmers should expect “something around $5.00/kgMS” when Fonterra this week announces its opening forecast for the new season.

Nominations are open for the 2015 Lincoln University Foundation South Island Farmer of the Year competition, and organisers are hoping for another record year.

National's 2015 Budget has allocated extra funding to strengthen animal welfare systems and biosecurity. A $10 million package over four years will bolster New Zealand's animal welfare systems, according to Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy.

ANZ has taken out CANSTAR's Best Agribusiness Bank award for 2015 – the fourth consecutive year it has won the award.

Farming innovation of the technology kind will be at the gates of East Coast farmers next April.

Since being awarded the Case IH franchise in 2009, Giltrap Agri-Zone has won an increasing share of the tractor market in the Waikato region. 

There are many ways to acquire the new machinery you need to have working your land and herds.