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.

Bernadine Oliver-Kerby talks to Katie Milne from Federated Farmers about how the Kaikoura earthquake and subsequent aftershocks have affected livestock, milk production, the farmers and their families.

Federated Farmers is assembling a "virtual farmy army" to support North Canterbury farmers hammered by this week's earthquakes.

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.

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

A report suggests the biggest weaknesses - and thus opportunities - for NZ's meat and wool is its lack of "brand".

Alan Lai's Agria Corp plans to appeal against a decision by the NYSE to delist the company's American Depository Shares.

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

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.

Angry shareholders have called for heads to roll at the top of Westland Milk Products after a reported loss of $14.5m.

Fonterra Cooperative Group's Australian business has raised its average farmgate milk price to A$5.10 per kilogram.

The chairman of the Bay of Plenty Regional Council Doug Leeder explains that the water quality issue is a problem everybody needs to get their heads around, whether they live in a rural or urban environment. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Farming entrepreneur Colin Harvey has put his 6,639-hectare Lake McKay Station up for sale.

Tourism earnings have soared to edge out dairy as New Zealand's top export earner for the first time since 2010.

New Zealand dairy production has remained stubbornly high, according to data from the Dairy Companies Association of NZ (DCANZ).

The IRD appears to be buying a fight with farmers as it seeks to change a rule that has been in force for more than 50 years.