Fonterra has told shareholders that the indicative payout level this season will be $6.40 per kilogram of milk solids.

China's Shanghai Maling has completed its purchase of a controlling stake in Silver Fern Farms.

The New Zealand dollar regained the ground shed after the shock resignation of Prime Minister John Key.

A sharp slump in confidence amongst beef and sheep farmers has tempered dairy farmer optimism in the latest Rabobank confidence survey of New Zealand farmers.

Five men have been ordered by the High Court at Auckland to pay a total $105,000 for their roles in a price-fixing agreement over cattle tagging.

Advances in whole milk powder prices at recent GlobalDairyTrade auctions is bolstering the outlook for New Zealand's largest export commodity.

This baby formula company was a share market darling, riding the wave of a Chinese boom in demand. But the party's over.

From Monday milk tankers and other essential freight will be given access in and out of Kaikoura.

Synlait has been named the winner of this year's Deloitte Top 200 Best Growth Strategy category.

A small band of protesters stood outside Fonterra's headquarters in downtown Auckland today to demonstrate against the co-operative's extensive use of coal.

Westland Milk, New Zealand's second biggest dairy co-op after Fonterra, has owned up to a poor performance over 2015/6.

The Reserve Bank remains wary about the risks posed to the financial system by high levels of dairy farm debt, despite sharply higher milk prices.

South Island dairy products processor Synlait Milk has increased its forecast farmgate milk price by $1 to $6 per kilogram of milk solids.

The 7.8 earthquake damaged around 20 per cent of Marlborough's storage tanks, but 2016 still promises to be a good year for wine.

Senior Fonterra executive Nicola Willis has resigned her Auckland-based position to seek nomination for the National Party in the Labour-held seat of Wellington Central.

Zespri shares have jumped 10 per cent in response to the kiwifruit marketer's announcement that it will sell licences for another 400 hectares of the SunGold variety.

Statistics NZ data shows cleaners, rubbish collectors labourers pest controllers, hotel porters, and courier drivers have the highest rate of claims for injury at work.

The biggest opportunity for agriculture is to be seen as a globally trusted source of sustainably produced goods.

Fonterra has raised its forecast payout to farmers by 75c per kilogram of milksolids as production dwindles.

Farmers and the fishing industry get $5 million relief package.

Fonterra today increased its 2016/17 forecast Farmgate Milk Price by 75 cents to $6.00 per kgMS.

Here's how Australian pharmacist Danielle Di Pilla is making millions selling her goat soap around the world.

Fonterra Cooperative Group has lost its bid to overturn a High Court ruling against inferior terms offered to the suppliers of the failed New Zealand Dairies Ltd business in South Canterbury.

Asparagus - that gorgeous green spear at the top of the vege season right now - is going to be in short supply throughout the country.

Some dairy farmers in the South Island might have to dispose of their milk due to road closures and other issues.

Mid Canterbury farmers are on standby to take dairy cows from quake-affected North Canterbury dairy farmers.

Farmers are sharing cow sheds and generators as they try to carry out the daily business of running their farms.

A report suggests the biggest weaknesses - and thus opportunities - for NZ's meat and wool is its lack of "brand".

Alan Lai's Agria Corp plans to appeal against a decision by the NYSE to delist the company's American Depository Shares.

COMMENT: If we are to meet our climate change obligations, there will have to be big changes in our agricultural sector.