Emotions spilled over when the winner of the Ahuwhenua Young Māori Dairy Farmer was announced at a gala dinner attended by 860 people in Hamilton recently.

Voting is underway for Farmlands director elections with six candidates vying for two vacant positions.

Labour Party agriculture spokesperson Jo Luxton is on a mission to win back rural sector votes.

Case IH's introduction of AFS Connect, an option for its high horsepower tractor ranges, has now been rolled out across its popular Puma models.

New Zealand’s major primary industry exporters have secured shipping capability to export $160 billion worth of products over the next 10 years.

Carrfields has launched a new partnership with Waikato-based Piako Tractors, where the latter will become the exclusive retailer and service provider of the German Horsch brand throughout the upper North Island.

An elite Holstein Friesian bull, Farside M Illustrious S3F, has been inducted into the "Hall of Fame", an honour exclusively reserved for animals that have delivered a significant contribution to the dairy industry.

People are starting to question the viability of sheep and beef farming as profitability in that sector falls to one of its all-time lows, according to Federated Farmers board member and Gisborne sheep and beef farm, Toby Williams.

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The mood in horticulture is cautiously optimistic, according to the chair of Horticulture NZ, Barry O'Neil.