CROPPING FARMERS in Canterbury and North Otago face a soggy battle to get winter cereals sown after another belt of rain swept the region this week.

THE RED MEAT Profit Partnership (RMPP) has reached its first milestone of being fully established as a limited partnership and has appointed a board of directors.

THE NEW ZEALAND bee industry as we knew it 10 years ago is not what we see today, says John Hartnell, Federated Farmers bee chairperson.

NOMINATIONS HAVE opened for this year's Rabobank Leadership awards – recognising the contribution of outstanding leaders in New Zealand and Australia's food and agribusiness industries.

THE 25th ANNIVERSARY of 2014 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards winners will go down in history.

AN INNOVATIVE new competition for Year 10 students helping to promote careers in the primary industries has been launched by Education Minister Hekia Parata and Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy.

THE FONTERRA Milk for Schools rollout across New Zealand is complete with 1450 schools, 170,000 Kiwi kids and their families, 10,500 Fonterra farmers, and 74 Anchor milkmen involved.

THE COMMERCE Commission wants any remaining rural customers with concerns with the way that interest rate swaps were sold to them to come forward.

THEY SAY farmers are their own worst enemy and news that nearly three out of four dairy farmers have been caught breaking basic employment laws does little to dispel this notion.

RUNNING DEER alongside sheep and cattle is a challenge the managers of Anawai monitor farm are determined to surmount.