THE NEW ZEALAND Market Disciplinary Tribunal says Fonterra breached its rules by not releasing information to the markets as soon as was aware of potential contamination of product during last year's false-alarm food safety scare.

PRICES WERE up again at today's North Island-only wool sale as the weather and an overall reduction in the clip constrained supply.

Food company Goodman Fielder will spend $27 million on upgrading its UHT milk plant in Christchurch.

BALLANCE AGRI-NUTRIENTS has reached the half-way mark in its $19.5 million programme under the Ministry for Primary Industries' Primary Growth Partnership (PGP).

THE FARM Data Code of Practice, launched yesterday (June 10), is a first for the New Zealand agricultural industry.

THE DAIRY industry will need 2300 more, and better qualified, workers by 2025, says the Ministry for Primary Industries.

SHEEP FARMERS have the opportunity to create momentum off the back of improving wool prices, says Sandra Faulkner, chairman of the Wool Levy Group.

WHEN stock agents and farmers head to livestock sales in Gisborne, Wairoa and Rangiuru, they count on seeing Barrie Gordon.

A RECENT enforcement order by the Environment Court should be a timely warning for dairy farmers to ensure their effluent management systems meet required standards and are capable of coping with farm expansion. 

SOLID BUSINESS management and attention to detail is behind the success of the winners of Silver Fern Farms, Hawke’s Bay Farmer of the Year 2014.