New Zealand's milk production leaped 11.3 per cent last season, the most productive on record.

"Million-dollar rain" was how Hawke's Bay Federated Farmers president Bruce Wills described yesterday's downpours which swept the region.

Fonterra has signed an agreement to develop two more large-scale dairy farms in China.

A West Coast farmer has been sentenced to community service after 60 cattle were found dead and dying.

What are the benefits, if any? And is it inevitable? Two views from opposite sides of the argument from Agram chief executive Graeme Peters and university researcher Professor Jack Heinemann.

As valuable to marine life as it is prized by humans, the Hauraki Gulf is in decline. Though solutions seem as elusive as the gulf's fish stocks, a groundswell is building for collaboration.