A self-contained sheep and dairy farm has won the 2015 Southland Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA) supreme winner award.

For many in the dairy industry June 1 means one thing – time to move. As the new season starts, thousands of sharemilkers pack their cows into stock trucks and move equipment and families to new farms.

Family ownership business structure and a clear customer focus have steered animal nutrition company Nutritech International Ltd to its 100th birthday.

About 9000 Fonterra farmers have so far bought goods and services via the co-op’s new Farm Source rewards scheme, earning $3 million in reward dollars.

The rural sector needs to focus more on mental wellness and look at developing simple self-diagnostic tools, says a South Island professional development coach, Loshni Manikam.

"Right place, right time” is how Bob Rosevear describes the success of his Mahoe Farmhouse Cheese operation.

Southland farmers Yvonne and Steven Dennis are LIC Sire Proving Scheme farmers of the year.

The China-led story about growth in dairy demand is likely over, says Hayley Moynihan, Rabobank’s dairy research director for NZ and Asia. 

Dairy farmers are more popular than they probably realise, says Andrew Fraser, DairyNZ brand manager. 

Milk price volatility can have a silver lining, says Dave McCall, DairyNZ’s general manager R&D.