An important fertiliser aid has been culled from farmers' chemical shopping lists after it turned up in milk products destined for human consumption.

A trial involving five parties linked to the running of Crafar Farms who face hundreds of charges between them of animal abuse has been postponed.

Evidence showing cattle getting into rivers and anecdotal stories of animals being slaughtered next to streams have renewed calls for the introduction of a bylaw to exclude stock from Hawkes Bay's waterways.

Natasha King has already written her own obituary. Although it was only part of a management course run by her employer, Meridian Energy.

Poachers and stock rustlers are being warned by Federated Farmers to find a different line of work.

Fonterra's Trading Among Farmers (TAF) share trading scheme received its final, albeit retrospective, seal of approval at the annual meeting yesterday.

More than 20 sheep were killed after a car ploughed into a stray flock northeast of Wairoa.

New Zealand's milk production leaped 11.3 per cent last season, the most productive on record.

"Million-dollar rain" was how Hawke's Bay Federated Farmers president Bruce Wills described yesterday's downpours which swept the region.

Fonterra has signed an agreement to develop two more large-scale dairy farms in China.

Southland police are on the hunt for whoever was responsible for an attack on sheep and lambs that can only be described as sadistic.

It's a fundraising scheme like no udder - a Waikato Lions club is asking for money from cull cows to raise funds for a Hamilton cancer facility.