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CE Kevin Parish says the money will accelerate work on an anthocyanin powder that separates a premium product from a commodity stream.

The homegrown mastitis-detection system Bovonic is now running on 350 New Zealand farms, measuring 7,800 clusters a day.

NZ First wants to increase the amount of Fonterra milk available to independent processors from 50 million litres a year to 500 million.

Seed variety selection, backed by the right endophyte and seed treatment, does more to protect a pasture's productivity and persistence.

New Zealand has no lamb survivability benchmark, leaving farmers without a measure of what counts as doing well.

The CEO of HortNZ is welcoming an IRD alert targeting non-compliant contractors, naming it as a needed step.

The competition returns to Canterbury in July next year, with the practical day at Kirwee and the evening show at Wolfbrook Arena.

Arable Farmers of the Year John and Mel McCaw took the title in front of 500 peers at the FAR Awards.

Relaxed government rules for agricultural spray drones risk environmental and safety harm without a training and licensing framework.

The standard follows a 2022 report identifying a data gap on imported treated seed, after two years of stakeholder work with the EPA.