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Rural women leaders making waves

Holly Ryan talks to some of the women making waves in New Zealand agribusiness.

Robots lend a helping hand on the farm

Robots can do milking duties and free up the farmer to complete other jobs on the farm.

A stake in the game?

The global market for animal-free meat substitutes is growing rapidly.

NZ walking GI tightrope

Will New Zealand play ball? Nigel Stirling reports.

Slump forces farmers to get financial

The milk price slump created an opportunity to strengthen financial literacy.

Greener pastures under Trump?

Trump has stressed that he is not opposed to all trade agreements.

Big push for clean water

DairyNZ boss Tim Mackle believes the industry can lift its game.

Disrupt or be disrupted

Fonterra is making farmers more sophisticated and is attacking the food services markets.

The risk management revolution

NZ has one of the world's fastest growing global dairy-based derivatives markets.

Agribusiness: Technology helps find gold

Fonterra has invested heavily into innovation and intellectual property. Now it has developed a new milk fingerprinting process, explains Bill Bennett.

Young agribusiness leaders impressed by NZ know-how

Southeast Asia initiative has potential to grow our innovation, writes Rebecca Palmer.

Agribusiness: India's massive thirst for milk

Former Fonterra director Earl Rattray is at the forefront of a shift to larger-scale dairy farming in India. For the past four years

Spark dials into the internet of agricultural things

Pat Verryt says Spark is working on an "Internet of Things" project to help farmers.

Era of high commodity prices coming to an end

The UN warns that the recent era of high agricultural commodity prices is likely to be over for all sub-sectors.

Agribusiness: Burgeoning appetite for new products

The time to capitalise on the surging numbers of newly-affluent Chinese households is now.

Robotic technology coming to orchards

Robotics Plus Ltd is developing mechanisation, automation, robotic and sensor technologies for horticulturet o achieve new levels of productivity.

Agribusiness: Big swings in the farming cycle

Westpac's Karen Silk says the bank is confident the problems facing NZ dairy farmers are cyclical.

High value products need a point of difference

Heading into a third year of low prices, questions have to be asked whether the dairy industry is on a false path. If so, where is the path back to firm ground?