South Taranaki farmers Peter and Nicola Carver’s eye for long-term sustainability has won them top placing in the Taranaki Ballance Farm Environment Awards contest – and five other awards.

Zespri will keep spending aggressively on marketing this year, says Jiunn Shih, the new global general manager marketing.

An intensive yet simple farm near Helensville, south Kaipara, last month won the Auckland Ballance Farm Environment Awards last month.

A new Maori-owned new dairy factory is being planned for the Kawerau region, modelled on the first Maori dairy company Miraka, near Taupo.

A young dairy farming couple have increased their equity by at least $500,000 in two-three years on a less-than-ideal Far North farm and despite two years of low dairy payout.

What’s happening with once a day (OAD) milking now, following the death last year of its great advocate professor Colin Holmes?

DairyNZ has put together in-depth tools and animations on how to milk efficiently while ensuring cow health.

Farmers can now benchmark their farm performances on a national scale, thanks to a new online tool.

Don Galletly's Loch Ness dairy farm on the Emu Plain, near Waiau, remains the only one in North Canterbury unable to milk since the November 14 quake.

Fonterra and LIC are in the final stages of developing an online tool, Agrigate, designed specifically to help farmers improve their farm performance through the use of their existing data.