Nearly 200 countries strike deal on how to combat climate change, but it's what the energy companies do next that could make or break the agreement.

Grabbing a bottle of milk from the supermarket was once a simple task.

Fonterra has maintained milk price at $4.60 per kilo, but scrapped a farmer support scheme.

Pressure is mounting on Fonterra to cut its farmgate milk price forecast at this week's board meeting, but it's looking like a close call.

Animal welfare group SAFE placed a graphic advertisement to shame NZ's dairy industry in the Guardian newspaper.

China is taking steps to genetically engineer its own food supply rather than growing it the boring old traditional way.

WATCH: Waikato farmer's impassioned defence of his fellow farmers following an expose on the "dark side of the farming industry".

MPI says an investigation into the alleged mistreatment of bobby calves had begun before news broke.

Investigator whose shocking video exposes cruelty in New Zealand's dairy industry says he was tipped off by concerned farmers.

The August-September price bubble has popped, according to a dairy broker.

In 2014/15, dairy companies processed 21.3 billion litres of milk containing 1.89 billion kilograms of milksolids.

There's some good news from the dairy sector today, with Fonterra saying its financial performance is improving.

Consumer and food service came in at $408 million, up 216 per cent on the previous year's.

Reserve Bank has asked the country's five biggest rural lenders to conduct a "stress test" of their exposure to dairy farm debt, and had encouraged them to set aside provisions .

Farming is largely a long term intergenerational business. But what could that future look like?

New Zealand has about 720,000ha of land under irrigation, but about half that again could be sustainably irrigated by 2025, an industry body says.

Any chance of an upgrade in Fonterra's farmer payout became more remote today after a big drop in world dairy prices.

Farmers might have to pay for their emissions like everyone else under a revision of the Government's main climate change policy.

Food researchers have been granted $10.9 million under a new Government scheme designed to encourage scientific brilliance and boost exports.

Silver Fern Farms chairman Rob Hewett said the board remained convinced that a joint venture proposal from Shanghai Maling Aquarius was the best choice.

State owned farmer Landcorp says it supports an alternative recapitalisation plan for the giant meat company.

A group of Silver Fern Farms shareholders who oppose the company's proposed joint venture with Shanghai Maling Aquarius say their offer of a $90 million alternative capital raising proposal remains a live issue just days before the deal goes to the vote.

Waikato dairy co-op Tatua says earnings before tax fell by 11.1pc to $121.2m, reflecting falling commodities prices.

Alliance chairman Murray Taggart says any Silver Fern merger Farms risks making a "big beached whale" of the meat industry.

Beef exports have hit $3 billion - a record high, driven by international shortages, rising local production, and a falling New Zealand dollar, Statistics NZ said.

Maling's proposal to acquire 50% of Silver Fern Farms reaffirms that Chinese investors are interested in New Zealand's rural and food-based assets.

Fonterra is reporting a big turnaround in annual profit and a much improved forecast cash payout for the current year.

Canterbury dairy company Synlait Milk has almost halved its net profit for the July year to $10.6 million.

Low dairy prices have continued to weigh heavily on farmer sentiment, according to Rabobank's Rural Confidence Survey.

Chief executive Theo Spierings says dairy giant has to make tough decisions as review increases job cuts to 750.