Dairy

South Canterbury will be the undisputed home base for butter making in the South Island after Fonterra signed off a $75 million expansion project at its Clandeboye site.

Lincoln University Dairy Farm has moved from 10 milkings every seven days to a more flexible system and has dropped pure plantain growing to keep up with top-performing farms in Canterbury.

South Canterbury farmers leaned on extra supplementary feeding to get them through a slow spring nipping into milk production.

Synlait Milk has entered an agreement to sell its North Island sites for $307 million to a United States buyer in a business shake-up to focus on core Canterbury operations.

Fonterra is "confident" it can get another double-digit payout over the line after handing farmers a record $10.16 for each kilogram of milksolids produced in 2024/25.

There is a lot of bull being seen on a dairy farm just south of Gore.

DairyNZ has announced the appointment of Jenny Jago to a newly created leadership team role — science partnerships and impact adviser.

Talley's Group-owned Open Country — New Zealand’s second-largest milk processor — has entered into a conditional agreement with the shareholders of Mataura Valley Milk to buy the business.