The Australian govt is shelving plans to start its ETS for at least three years, but the NZ Government says it has no plans to delay the scheme here.

Almost 200 people have thrown their weight behind a Facebook group in support of embattled farmer Allan Crafar.

The sale of 16 Crafar dairy farms could be enough to cover all of the family's bank debt.

Receivers say the Crafar farms were "in dire straits" when they stepped in last year.

Allan Crafar remains on family land, 11 days after receivers set a deadline for him to leave.

New Zealand's $26 billion agriculture sector will soon feel the squeeze from lower-cost foreign competition.

Allan Crafar remains on his family farm in the Waikato, a week after the deadline expired for him to vacate the land.

Chinese-backed interests are reported to also be looking at up to 100 dairy farms in Otago and Southland, plus a factory.

Former dairy farmer Allan Crafar says he has been living in 'hell' since receivers took over his family company.

Fran O'Sullivan notes a contradiction emerging in the utterings of Fonterra on the one hand, and Federated Farmers on the other.

Allan Crafar, whose farms are in receivership owing $200m, says: "I've had a gutsful."