The business community has mixed reactions towards a greener and more anti-dam stance on the Hawke's Bay Regional Council. Hawke's

The Fed Farmers Rural Security Spokesperson discusses poaching and the devastating effects it has on rural NZ.

Federated Farmers Dairy Chair Andrew Hoggard caught up with Dom George to talk all things dairy.

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

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Harmful farming practices are being pointed to as a cause of the "disgusting" state of Hawke's Bay's rivers. Although the Hawke's

Farmers have seen two successive seasons of sub-par milk prices and the signs so far have pointed to a third.

Federated Farmers Chair Andrew Hoggard is keeping a lid on his GDT excitement.

Chris Lewis, Federated Farmers Waikato Provincial President discusses the alarming rate of drugs on farms with The Country Early Edition's Dom George.

Andrew Hoggard: Federated Farmers Dairy Chairman speaks to Dom from their annual conference in Wellington; what are the implications of Brexit on dairy and is the industry slowly beginning to head in the right direction?

Farmers Dairy chairman Andrew Hoggard says dairy farmers need to ask themselves what a smart level of debt is given the risk profile for the next decade.

Dry stock farmers' salaries have grown strongly in the past year, according to Federated Farmers and Rabobank's 2015-16 employee remuneration report.

Federated Farmers and Dairy NZ have been holding around the country aimed at helping farmers, particularly sharemilkers, through the downturn.

Dairy farmers are the most optimistic group in New Zealand's agricultural sector for the coming year, according to a Federated Farmers poll.

The Reserve Bank has warned defaults on dairy loans will be likely as cash-flow shortage estimated at $1/kgMS.

A businessman, 60, is alleged to have acted alone in blackmail scare that said infant formula would be poisoned.

I like to see the glass half full, and I have the facts to back that view. If you still want to see the glass half empty - you're the loser, writes Mike Hosking.

Almost 2000 people are being viewed as persons of interest in the investigation into the threat to contaminate infant formula with 1080 poison.

All of the samples of infant formula tested by police after being suspected of possible tampering have tested negative for 1080.

Authorities are no closer to saying if the threat to poison baby formula with 1080 was a hoax, or who wrote the blackmail threats - even with 30 staff on the case.

Police are testing infant formula after a number of tins were found with pin-pricks in packaging lids.

Dairy companies are confident security measures at their facilities are tight enough to prevent a 1080 contamination.

Fallout from this week's baby formula contamination threat weighed heavily on the New Zealand dollar yesterday, with news of curtailed orders from China driving the currency lower still.

The Government was right to say nothing until discreet inquiries had failed and there is a chance a public appeal might help police catch him. The interval appears to have permitted the industry to be well prepared.

Dairy exports may already be stuck on Chinese wharves as a result of a new import requirement that products be tested for 1080 contamination, says an industry group.