Landcorp has been unsuccessful in its bid for the Crafar dairy farm empire, receivers say. But it is unclear who has won the race to buy the farms.

A farmer wants TrustPower to check its lines after eight cows died when a 33kV line dropped on his farm.

Crafars say receivers have "substantially mismanaged" their farms and the sale process and were called in without any prior warning.

The Crafar bid to seek an injunction stopping the sale of their dairy empire by receivers appears to have been called off.

Receivers for the Crafar dairy empire say the request for an injunction stopping the sale is 'unfortunate' and without merit.

Allan Crafar is being uncharacteristically coy about whether he’s been able to come up with money needed to settle his debts, despite earlier assurances that he would.

Real Estate Institute boss Peter McDonald has backed a bid by state-owned farmer Landcorp to purchase the Crafar empire.

Battling dairy farmer Allan Crafar is confident he can come up with the more than $200 million he needs to settle his debts by 4pm today.

Prime Minister John Key will launch his own version of 'Panda diplomacy' in Beijing today.

The Chinese backed bid to buy up 16 Crafar family farms in receivership has been lodged with the Overseas Investment Office.

State-owned Landcorp Farming will meet today to decide whether to bid for 16 farms from the Crafar empire being sold by receivers.