Silver Fern shareholders will revisit the controversial joint-venture with China's Shanghai Maling at a special meeting this afternoon.

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COMMENT: There is little NZ can do about high dollar or inflation.

Westpac has now joined ANZ bank and cut mortgage rates after the Reserve Bank dropped the OCR this morning.

From the hilarious and surprising to downright scary, internet users have revealed some of their best-kept industry secrets the public isn't meant to know.

Seating environmental and industry groups at the same table is hoped to bolster new national policy on safeguarding nature on private land.

Craft beer now accounts for 15 per cent of New Zealand's total beer market.

Dairy futures trading over the last few two days suggests physical prices could be in for another big jump at next Wednesday's bi-monthly

Dairy futures trading over last few days suggests physical prices could be in for another big jump at next Wednesday's bi-monthly GlobalDairyTrade auction.

T&G Global is on a roll this year, with after-tax profit of $22.7 million for the first six months of 2016 - 89 per cent up on the

New Zealand's sheep flock dropped 3 per cent to the lowest level since the 1930's Depression.

PGG Wrightson, the rural services firm controlled by New York Stock Exchange-listed Agria Corp, posted a 20 percent gain in full-year

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It's hard not to be impressed by the intellectual and technological grunt going into horticultural industry, Barry Soper writes.

Economists say Landcorp's decision to stop using palm kernel expeller (PKE) as a supplementary feed is a sign of things to come.

Weaning animals from antibiotics in favor of vaccines has become central as resistant superbugs become more prevalent in public spaces.

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New Zealand's biggest farming company will stop using the controversial feed supplement by June next year.

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Zespri won't be exporting to its biggest market by volume until new checking protocols are in place.

A tech-food start up has won competition Start Tel Aviv for its meat-free food alternatives.

COMMENT: Our dairy industry is under serious stress, argues Tony Baldwin. Here's a way to fix the problem.

The once-debt laden fertiliser co-operative, Ravensdown, said it had raised its pre-tax profit and was able to pay its farmer-shareholders

World dairy prices have shot higher at the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, with the GDT price index gaining 6.6pc.

Zespri and the Government are batting away suggestions that politics has played any role in increased scrutiny of New Zealand kiwifruit entering China.

Cost cutting by farmers had helped to drag down Dairy NZ's break-even price to $5.05 per kg of milk solids from $5.25 previously.

Fonterra's infant formula sales in China are running ahead of its expectations, chairman John Wilson says.

The dairy giant has stuck with its farmgate milkprice of $4.25.

A Northland sharemilker has been ordered to pay two labourers nearly $33,000 in wage arrears and lost remuneration.

ASB Bank is punting on Fonterra leaving its 2016/7 farmgate milk price forecast unchanged at $4.25 a kg of milk solids.