Greenpeace has erected anti-Ruataniwha dam billboards around Hawke's Bay this week in a bid to "send the message that these elections

Federated Farmers president William Rolleston has stepped in as acting president of the World Farmers' Organisation.

Tatua Co-op dairy payout drops to $6.30 a kg, but is still well ahead of its larger competitors like Fonterra.

Dom George looks at both sides of the rural/urban story to try and see if everyone can play nice.

Our West Coast cow cocky comments on the Westland Milk Products forecast payout.

Shareholders have approved the second stage of a major South Canterbury irrigation scheme.

Westland Milk has confirmed its final payout to suppliers will be well below break-even and Fonterra's payout.

People who grow up on farms are less likely to suffer allergies in later life, a new study suggests. Women who grew up on farms

A Balclutha man who stabbed a sheep to death told the farmer he did it because he was hungry.

Irrigation New Zealand is slamming what they call publicity stunts by anti-farming lobby groups dead-set against the Ruataniwha Dam

It's the whole show in one go! Today The Country is brought to you by a Silver Fern Farms fight as Winston goes head to head with

Farmer confidence is improving, led by optimism returning to the dairy sector after two years of depressed prices.

We catch up with shearing royalty as the countdown continues to the World Shearing and Woolhandling Champs in Invercargill next February 9-11.

Mr Loe chats to The Country about the price of lamb for the coming season and the state of Springbok rugby.

Silver Fern Farms and Shanghai Maling have a few more nervous days to wait before they learn whether their joint venture proposal can go ahead.

Bayer's US$66 billion acquisition of Monsanto, creating the world's biggest supplier of seeds and agri-chemicals to farmers, will

Dom George wonders if Marcella Bakker is really looking for love or just looking for a TV show...

Jane Smith and Nadine Porter continue the water debate on The Country.

Watch: A primary school north of Auckland has seen its roll surge in recent weeks with the opening of an unusual daycare.

Five-hundred cows stolen from a mid-Canterbury dairy farm were probably rustled over a period of months, police believe.

Report predicts agricultural robotics industry will grow by $7 billion in just six years

World dairy prices put on their third significant gain in a row at the latest GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) auction overnight.

Jamie Mackay has nicknamed ANZ's rural economist "The Grim Reaper". Could this name be justified or does Con Williams have positive vibes for the rural economy?

Dairy price recovery was the main contributor to another monthly lift in the ANZ commodity price index.

The Country has an exclusive for you from Steve Hollander and Tim Myers. They're here to announce the details of the inaugural Norwood

Dom takes on some ill-informed keyboard warriors in this week's Furious George.

Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings' challenge 'build windmills not walls' is galvanising the dairy co-operative.

Westpac's Karen Silk says the bank is confident the problems facing NZ dairy farmers are cyclical.

The theft of 500 cows from a large Ashburton dairy farm will cut this year's milk production by up to 200,000kg.

News agency Bloomberg has taken a close look at Fonterra - see what it's telling the world about our dairy giant.