A former contract milker who rammed a difficult dairy cow with a quad bike is banned from the dairy industry for 12 months.

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World dairy prices have shot higher at the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, with the GDT price index gaining 6.6pc.

Not many bosses would arrange for nurses, budget advisors and the IRD to come and talk to you about child support. But husband and

Fonterra's infant formula sales in China are running ahead of its expectations, chairman John Wilson says.

Documents reveal Murray McCully met the businessman behind a controversial farm deal while in Saudi Arabia - despite his office saying he had no plans for such a meeting.

Fonterra will update its farmgate milk price and reveal earnings per share forecasts for 2016/17 on Monday.

The ninth birthday this week of Dolly the cloned sheep's four genetic siblings - Debbie, Denise, Diana and Daisy - prove that large cloned animals age normally, say scientists.

Biologists are adding a gene to the DNA of the pigeon pea, in hopes of boosting export output by 30 per cent.

Farm prices are on the way down, led by an 18 per cent decline in the dairy sector over the past 12 months.

Fonterra Cooperative Group's New Zealand milk collection fell 10 per cent in the first month of the 2017 season, a typically low production period.

Claudio Da Costa, 47, told MPI investigators he used scissors because it was a 'quick and cheap fix for the problem'.

KIwiRail is introducing a charge to maintain private rail crossings, and farmers will be the first to be asked to cough up.

Failed Crafar farms buyer May Wang is appealing her convictions and her eight-year jail sentence. Wang, also known as May Hao, was

Manuka honey is making a big comeback with plans to develop a $1.2 billion honey industry.

Northland farmers and possum trappers are being warned to take care around animals after a spike in cases of leptospirosis. Leptospirosis

New Zealand commodity prices rose for a second month in June, led by more seafood and dairy products.

Milk processing firm Miraka is tripling production to meet a growing thirst for its UHT products in China.

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.

Some farmers are seeing sales drop as customers want prepared foods more than produce.

The release of 400ha to grow Gold3 kiwifuit under licence in 2016 will result in a hefty increase in Zespri International's corporate profit.

"Hang in there" - that's the message Fonterra chairman John Wilson was giving to farmers at Fieldays.

Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings has reshuffled the roles of some of his top managers for the third time this year.

Attendance at Fieldays on day two of the four-day agricultural event was up 10 per cent on the same day last year.

There is no "get out of jail free" card for dairy farmers in the current dairy downturn.

Doug Avery knows what it's like to be depressed.

The crankholder is set to revolutionise the fencing industry ... or at least make it much easier to build a fence.

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Attendance at Fieldays is running just slightly below this time last year, despite the current slump in dairy prices.