With the dairy industry in New Zealand facing an ongoing demand for skilled workers, agricultural students from Ireland and ...

The New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards (NZDIA) programme has introduced two new awards aimed at supporting farmers on their ...

The winner of the 2025 Waikato Dairy Manager of the Year category is Zac van Dorsten. He won $10,523 in prizes and three ...

“Agriculture remains the backbone of our economy with food and fibre exports bringing in over $10,600 for every Kiwi, with ...

A legacy of leadership and dedication to farming helped the Cousins family win the Horizons Ballance Farm Environment Awards ...

Cattle on a New Zealand, Bay of Plenty farm feeding in the late winter sun. Cattle graze outside all year round. Cows walking on a dirt road into a paddock in a dairy cow farm nz dairy cows a herd of ...

Sleep is as important to humans as food and water, but it is often sacrificed to work, especially for farm workers. Dairy ...

Brad and Courtney Edwards were named the region’s Share Farmer of the Year at the annual awards dinner which was held at the ...

“Returns for dairy have been substantially better than for a traditional sheep and beef farming operation,” she said. The chart below shows how milk-producing cows now contribute far more to New ...