A dairy company has received the largest ever fine imposed under the Resource Management Act in the Waikato region. Open Country Dairy was ordered to pay $221,250 after an objectionable smell from its Waharoa plant caused residents to vomit and suffer......

It may sound like something out of the twilight zone, but a Dunedin company hopes artificial intelligence with the ability to recognise and identify individual sheep may revolutionise farming. Iris Data Science is working on the prototype of its Sheep......

Fonterra Co-operative Group Limited today increased its 2019/2020 forecast Farmgate Milk Price range from $6.25 - $7.25 per kgMS to $6.55 - $7.55 per kgMS. The Advance Rate Fonterra pays its farmer owners will be set off the mid-point, $7.05 per kgMS,......

The Ministry for Primary Industries believes its is possible to eradicate a chicken virus that was recently detected here. Last month MPI reported routine industry testing at two Otago egg farms owned by Mainland Poultry had identified the likely presence......

Green Rush - Rich-listers, established farming families and a former All Black are among New Zealand's top 50 landowners. Last week, RNZ revealed that the four largest private landowners in New Zealand are all foreign-owned forestry companies, based......

Many hill country farmers could be locked into low-return agriculture by government policy, with little chance of breaking the cycle, according to the main meat producers' lobby, Beef + Lamb New Zealand. But farms that already leached nitrates......

The Waikato Regional Council says it has received a wave of complaints about mismanagement of effluent from dairy farms. Two have led to prosecutions, while six more are still being investigated. The council said in one case, P Walter Farm Limited,......

Deer velvet production is forecast to lift this season, but there are warnings of some headwinds facing the sector. There are about 1500 deer farms in New Zealand. As well as farming for venison, many harvest antler velvet and sell it to Asian communities......

Environment Minister David Parker says the government's proposed freshwater policy won't affect the cost of vegetables. Growers are worried about the effects of the plans to put tighter controls on land intensification and tougher limits for......

A five-year research programme has been launched to provide greater information on how much water is lost on braided rivers into groundwater. The rivers, mainly along the east coast of New Zealand, are gravel-bedded rivers with multiple channels that......