You could say the Jones family farm is a bit of a spread. Their Coolibah Station runs 80,000 cattle across 1.3 million acres which makes the annual muster a major exercise involving horses, trucks and helicopters.

Former PGG Wrightson managing director Tim Miles received a $3m payment when he unexpectedly left the company last year, according to the company's annual report.

A tornado has devastated a farming station near Gisborne, taking out sheds and injuring at least one farm dog believed to have been picked up and dumped. Craig Ferris "huddled in a ball" in the corner of his carport...

Fonterra farmers are again warning that any change which may reduce their ownership or control of the co-operative sill be rejected.

Landcorp Farming, New Zealand's biggest farm business, expects Fonterra's payout to slip next year and its own earnings from beef exports to fall, reflecting the high kiwi dollar.