Why are dairy prices falling? Well, if you read industry commentary from places like the United States and Europe they know who's to blame. It's us.

Overseas sale of 13,800ha station would be a tragedy, says Conservative leader

Chinese company Shanghai Pengxin confirmed it is aiming to buy a $70 million North Island farm, which would be second-largest foreign purchase of New Zealand land.

The old Sony factory in Japan's Miyagi Prefecture is up and running again. But this time it's an indoor farm that is the largest of its kind.

The National Policy Statement (NPS) for freshwater may not have razzmatazz, but it arose from that exercise in consensual collaboration called the Land and Water Forum.

Hollywood A-lister Reese Witherspoon is joining a flock of celebrities lining up to cover their faces in Kiwi sheep placenta.

Labour Leader David Cunliffe says a Govt he led would invest up to $200 million over four years in development projects aimed at resuscitating flagging regional economies.

Farmers in the UK are upset that a large supermarket chain is promoting New Zealand lamb over locally sourced sheepmeat.

The world's appetite for chicken is growing faster than any other meat, while pork consumption is slowing, according to an OECD report.

The Green Party has dismissed the new bottom lines as "weak" and argues the measures mean rivers will only have to be clean enough for wading or boating.

Landcorp, New Zealand's largest corporate farmer, is having a serious look at milking sheep.

Fieldays is over and tens of thousands of visitors to Mystery Creek have witnessed the future of dairy farming.

US beef prices are up 74 per cent since 2009 to the highest on record, after a seven-year decline in the herd left the fewest cattle in at least six decades.

As James Hemopo lay injured and helpless while a bull charged at him, Fonz, his farm dog, fended off the beast.

It's a long way from netball hoops to jumping through the hoops of doing business in China but farmer Mike Wilkins is aiming as carefully as his former Silver Fern wife.

Rogue dairy farmers exploiting migrant workers have no place in the industry, a senior farming leader says.

Thousands of sheep in Australia are believed to have died after eating a poisonous plant that makes them “bash their heads on posts and rocks until they crack open”.

Labour's Shadow Minister of Finance David Parker looked the part in delivering his party's monetary policy.

The Commerce Commission says farmers concerned about their interest rate swaps have until the end of the month to contact the regulator otherwise they may miss out on future compensation claims.

Despite reports, comments and rhetoric on how farmers are destroying New Zealand's waterways, a step change has occurred within the primary sector, writes John Donkers.

A large chunk of residential land for sale will enable the building of hundreds of new homes as the Auckland Council tries to solve the city's housing crisis.

French food giant Danone has entered an agreement to buy New Zealand dairy processing firms Sutton Group and Gardians.

Home owners, sitting on a near tripling of house prices over the past 20 years, are largely immune to warnings that the housing market is overheated.

Farmers are being cautioned to prepare contingency plans amid early signs of a large El Nino climate event this year.