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It's been a good summer in Wairarapa with rain at the right times to keep grass and crops going.

Dairy industry leaders have welcomed the successful prosecution of a businessman who threatened to spike infant formula with 1080.

Fonterra doesn't believe it will take much to change the global dairy market, but it expects very little change this year.

A second green revolution is needed - and the answer includes genetic technologies.

Federated Farmers has welcomed the Reserve Bank's decision to cut the Official Cash Rate by 25 basis points to 2.25%.

Federated Farmers Dairy chairman Andrew Hoggard says subsidies and support payments to farmers are partly responsible for the shock rise in global milk production.

New Zealand appears to have lost its ability to influence global dairy prices, says Rabobank analyst Thomas Bailey.

This morning's announcement by Fonterra to drop its forecast payout will lump more pressure on dairy farmers and they will be counting down the days to end of the season.

The eight organisations that formed a Bobby Calf Action Group at the end of 2015 are well advanced on a range of initiatives ensuring best practice handling and management of bobby calves.

Forest owners say kinks in the laws covering the release of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) need to be ironed out.