The board of New Zealand's second largest dairy co-op has been criticised by the Agriculture Minister for urging farmer-shareholders to give up their ownership in a flawed process. Westland Milk Products is under offer from China's Yili dairy......

Dairy prices have fallen for the third consecutive auction. The average price was down 3.8 percent to $US3208 a tonne. It follows the previous auction's 3.4 percent drop. Prices are now at their lowest in six months after they had risen since......

Fieldays exhibitors were awarded for their effort and ingenuity in the creation of their sites for the Fieldays 2019 Exhibitor Site Awards proudly sponsored by Xero. The first round of judging took place on Wednesday, with 16 volunteer judges assigned......

Some of the best new agri-innovations have been recognised at National Agricultral Fieldays near Hamilton. Winners at the Fieldays Innovation Awards included a 'fit bit' for rivers, which monitors water quality, an online service to help orchardists......

Strawberry Growers New Zealand Board is asking growers to vote on a proposal to apply for a levy on strawberries, with voting papers going out today. Following extensive consultation with growers and other stakeholders, Strawberry Growers New Zealand......

  Hundreds of people are queueing to enter the 2019 Fieldays today.   A SunMedia reporter who is at the annual event in the Waikato says it’s a cloudy but fine day so far. “Queues building at the gates but traffic flowing......

Farmers’ overall satisfaction with their banks remains strong but it is declining steadily, the Federated Farmers 11th biennial banking survey shows. Satisfaction rates are at their lowest since the survey began in August 2015. "More than......

Dairy export volumes hit a new high after rising 19 per cent in the March 2019 quarter, adjusted for seasonal effects, Stats NZ says. While dairy volumes were strong in the quarter, actual dairy prices fell 7.5 percent. That means dairy values rose......

More than 100,000 cattle have now been culled as part of the government's Mycoplasma bovis eradication programme. Figures released by the Ministry for Primary Industries also showed 171 properties had been confirmed as having the cattle disease. Mycoplasma......

Data released by the the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ) shows there were 56 fewer farm sales in New Zealand (-13.4%) for the three months ended April 2019, compared to the same time last year. The median price per hectare for all farms......