It is very important when you rear a pup to start as you mean to go on. 

Crop packaging company Agpac says its use of coloured silage and hay bales to raise awareness of breast cancer in rural communities is catching on in other countries.

Synlait Milk has revised its forecast of the market milk price for the FY2015 season down from $5/kgMS to $4.40/kgMS; along with a corresponding decrease in advance rates to farmers.

BEEF + LAMB New Zealand (B+LNZ) is working together with its sheep farming counterparts from the US and Australia to get Americans eating more lamb.

Pinot Noir New Zealand will be returning to the Wellington waterfront in 2017 for three days, starting January 31.

The first of seven Grand Finalists will be determined next weekend, Saturday, February 7 as Otago/Southland starts the 2015 Regional Finals for the ANZ Young Farmer Contest in Queenstown.

The Silver Fern Farms director elections have again highlighted the need to improve corporate governance at the country’s meat cooperatives, says Meat Industry Excellence (MIE) chairman John McCarthy.

As in-calf data accumulates across Southland it appears the winter’s widespread swede problem hasn’t had a major impact on reproduction rates.

Dairy prices have bottomed out and are on a tentative and slow recovery path. That’s the consensus of four agri economists spoken to by Dairy News after last week’s Global Dairy Trade auction saw a 1% lift overall and notably a 3.8% lift in whole milk powder.

In a controversial Waikato case, a judge has told the dairy industry to step up in on educating farmers about environmental responsibilities including disturbing stream beds.