By CHRIS GARDNER

They came from across the region to explode the myth that when it comes to dairy farm finances the women are right on top of it.

By CHRIS GARDNER

The directors of the troubled New Zealand Organic Dairy Farmers Co-Operative have called in the receivers, leaving 27 suppliers looking for other avenues for their milk.

By CHRIS GARDNER

The moment sheep farmers voted to drop the wool levy they paid to Meat & Wool New Zealand further job losses at AgResearch became inevitable.

By CHRIS GARDNER

Most agricultural contractors tasked with spreading effluent on Waikato farms are doing so with no detailed instructions from dairy farmers.

By CHRIS GARDNER

Former Fonterra director Harry Bayliss is refusing to explain himself after taking another pot shot at the company's chairman Sir Henry van der Heyden.

By CHRIS GARDNER

The chief executive of fledgling New Zealand Organic Dairy Farmers Co-Operative, Patrick Geals, has resigned after the co-operative delivered less than half of its promised $7 per kg of milksolids.

By CHRIS GARDNER

Prospective buyers have shown interest in a cluster of 29 Graeme Hart-owned dairy farms around Tokoroa, but real estate agents are yet to close any deals.

A new kid on the block, Hawke's Bay shearer Cam Ferguson, will wave the New Zealand flag at the World Championships.

By CHRIS GARDNER

Clive Dalton, the former agricultural scientist whose photographs of skinny cows at Morrinsville saleyards prompted two animal welfare investigations, has been heralded by DairyNZ as one of the foremost experts in the field.

By CHRIS GARDNER

Outgoing AgResearch chief executive Andy West is not surprised by a survey which showed high levels of job dissatisfaction among agricultural and soil scientists.

By CHRIS GARDNER

Fonterra is on track to grow milk production by about 1 per cent this season, with recent rain helping to slow the rapid decline in production in the upper North Island.

By CHRIS GARDNER

DairyNZ says the public discussion on body condition scoring of cows, started when Clive Dalton photographed an emaciated mob at a Waikato saleyards before Christmas, is going nowhere.

An ambitious project to boost New Zealand export receipts by hundreds of millions of dollars a year by pooling our farming expertise has received a huge fillip from prominent Middle Eastern investment company Emirates Investment Group.

By CHRIS GARDNER

Deer farmer Ian Scott has labelled a national animal traceability scheme, approved by the Government yesterday, as "another trade tariff".

By CHRIS GARDNER

A mob of emaciated cows sold at Morrinsville before Christmas were in worse condition than animals suffering from the effects of the Waikato drought.

By CHRIS GARDNER

AgResearch's chief executive says scientists have a moral obligation to use genetic modification to solve a pending world food crisis.

By CHRIS GARDNER

Fonterra is being called on to open investment opportunities to institutional investors after only a third of its 10,500 shareholders responded to a call to buy extra shares.

By CHRIS GARDNER

Hamilton farmer Gavin Shewan has defended the sale of seriously emaciated cows at Morrinsville saleyard last month.

By CHRIS GARDNER

Sharemilkers who don't do their homework on changes to the way Fonterra pays the dividend portion of its payout could lose thousands of dollars in income, Federated Farmers is warning.

By BEN HEATHER

Rural Equities Ltd has sold Fox's Peak Station in South Canterbury for $6.3 million, in a move toward dairy at the expense of sheep and beef.