Federated Farmers supports the unification of the fragmented apiculture industry, but says people with governance skills are needed to ensure the process is successful.

A group of stock agents and meat processors have agreed to work with Federated Farmers and the Rural Support Trust to help farmers affected by the drought.

Waikato Milking Systems (WMS) is the story of the Kiwi business that turns ideas into cutting edge design and technology, and delivers its products to dairy producers throughout the world.

Until the early 1990’s Claas was known as a manufacturer of harvesting machinery for the grain and livestock industries, but that changed in 1993.

A small dairy farm at Cambridge has installed the country’s first parallel milking parlour from DeLaval.

Nine months since reports of cows collapsing on swede crops in Southland, the exact cause of the casualties is still uncertain.

I worked as a government viticultural scientist in New Zealand in the 1980s in the early stages of growth of the present sector.

Iseki has bolstered its line of compact tractors with its new TG6000 Series.

For the past four years the Okaihau property of Alister and Lyn Candy and their daughter Christine has been Northland’s DairyNZ focus farm.

Knee-jerk spending cuts that compromise long-term productivity are a real risk in the face of the $4.50/kgMS payout forecast and probable low opening 2015-16 figure, leading farmers are warning.