New Zealand's monthly trade deficit narrowed in October the global dairy market buoyed exports of dairy products.

A large, illegal meat production ring has been discovered in Auckland.

A2 Milk Co shares rose almost 5 per cent after the company updated shareholders at its annual meeting in Sydney.

The controversial deal which will see meat processor Silver Fern Farms sell a 50 per cent controlling stake to Shanghai Maling is set to be completed.

A farmer suffered leg and back injuries after falling out of a tree on his Hawke's Bay farm.

Fonterra Cooperative Group says milk collection has been restored in earthquake damaged Culverden, Waiau and Amuri areas.

Emergency supplies have finally landed in a cut-off community just 22km north of Kaikoura.

The Waverley A&P Show has been going for 86 years. People come from around the region to experience what is one of the last old style farming events around.

Fonterra has raised its forecast payout to farmers by 75c per kilogram of milksolids as production dwindles.

Here's how Australian pharmacist Danielle Di Pilla is making millions selling her goat soap around the world.

Fonterra Cooperative Group has lost its bid to overturn a High Court ruling against inferior terms offered to the suppliers of the failed New Zealand Dairies Ltd business in South Canterbury.

Some dairy farmers in the South Island might have to dispose of their milk due to road closures and other issues.

A mercy mission into rural quake-hit Marlborough has led to donations for farming communities and offers of help.

Mid Canterbury farmers are on standby to take dairy cows from quake-affected North Canterbury dairy farmers.

Thanks to Brexit and Donald Trump's successful presidential election "the whole world has got a lot more complicated", says special

Farmers are sharing cow sheds and generators as they try to carry out the daily business of running their farms.

Fonterra expects disruption to milk collection and farms that cannot be reached may have to dispose of their milk.

North Canterbury farmers are rallying together by sharing cow sheds and lending generators as they try to carry out the daily business

COMMENT: The debate around the impact of large-scale dams is often one sided, says water ecologist Dr Mike Joy.

Property and farming rich listers are among those who have made big donations to National over the past year.

Vegetarians have often argued that their diet is more environmentally friendly, but a carbon footprint study reveals how friendly our food really is.

Not many Kiwis may be satisfied by the Auditor General's report into the propriety of the Government's gift of a sheep-breeding establishment to a breeder in Saudi Arabia.

Federated Farmers is urging farmers to tackle the issue of methamphetamine in the workplace. Experts say new Health and Safety regulations mean employers are now legally obligated to take steps to mitigate the risk. Made with funding from NZ On AIr

The death of Thailand's monarch has caused a dip in avocado exports, but Korea is picking up the slack.

Economists went back to the drawing board to revise up their farmgate milk price forecasts.

Distressing footage of a cow being suspended from a tractor by hip clamps has been released by Farmwatch.

At the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction the key whole milk powder price went up nearly 20 per cent.

COMMENT: Think of your least favourite ministry then multiply it by a thousand. That's roughly how much I despise the Ministry for Primary Industries.

More than half of fatalities on farms last year involved experienced workers carrying out routine jobs, new data from WorkSafe shows.

Mercer Group says the collapse of a silo at Fonterra Cooperative Group's Edendale factory could cost the unprofitable stainless steel fabricator as much as $45 million.