The key change to the governance model will enable farmers to directly nominate their own choice for selection to the board.

Teen flown to hospital after quadbike hits a sheep.

Quick-thinking dairy farmer uses milk to put out a shed fire.

The decline is the first in five auctions.

Feral sheep are under threat but Wimbledon farmer Brian Hales is showcasing what these exotic breeds have to offer. Made with funding from NZ on Air

A 50-year-old man who died after the quad bike he was riding crashed on a farm near Ashburton has been named.

Ties between New Zealand and Sri Lanka have been cemented this morning as Ranil Wickremesinghe visits Auckland.

The Kiwi cat that thinks it is a sheep has gone global.

Greenpeace has erected anti-Ruataniwha dam billboards around Hawke's Bay this week in a bid to "send the message that these elections

Westland Milk has confirmed its final payout to suppliers will be well below break-even and Fonterra's payout.

A Balclutha man who stabbed a sheep to death told the farmer he did it because he was hungry.

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Farmer confidence is improving, led by optimism returning to the dairy sector after two years of depressed prices.

Silver Fern Farms and Shanghai Maling have a few more nervous days to wait before they learn whether their joint venture proposal can go ahead.

Jane Smith and Nadine Porter continue the water debate on The Country.

Enjoy that steak while you can.

The farmers ended up supplying Fonterra after it bought a failed Canterbury dairy business out of receivership.

Report predicts agricultural robotics industry will grow by $7 billion in just six years

Watch NZH Focus: Tristram Clayton talks with Herald Business Reporter Jamie Gray on the upward trend of world dairy prices.

World dairy prices put on their third significant gain in a row at the latest GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) auction overnight.

The price of whole milk powder may rise for the fourth straight auction on the GlobalDairyTrade platform next week.

Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings' challenge 'build windmills not walls' is galvanising the dairy co-operative.

Westpac's Karen Silk says the bank is confident the problems facing NZ dairy farmers are cyclical.

here are bright signs for New Zealand's primary producers, says Nathan Guy.

The theft of 500 cows from a large Ashburton dairy farm will cut this year's milk production by up to 200,000kg.

News agency Bloomberg has taken a close look at Fonterra - see what it's telling the world about our dairy giant.

The Taranaki farmers bought controversial interest rate swaps from the bank.

The futures market suggests an earnings upgrade might be on the way for Fonterra's farmers.

Farming, conservation and tourism need to go hand in hand for New Zealand's future, Whakahoro farmer and entrepreneur Dan Steele says. He