Rise of 1.4 per cent ends a four-sale losing streak.

Modest 1.4 per cent gain an end to four-sale losing streak.

New Zealand's terms of trade declined in the fourth quarter as weaker prices for dairy and meat saw export prices falling more than import prices.

Population growth, construction and tourism offset declines in NZ dairy prices.

New Zealand's largest dairy cooperative is planning to close its cheese plant in the South Island town of Kaikoura.

Founded in 2000 by a Kiwi scientist and a multimillionaire farm owner, a2 Milk's market value has more than tripled to NZ$1.2 billion over the past year.

A big Commerce Commission report has found there's not enough competition to justify any deregulation of New Zealand's dairy sector.

A recovery in the dairy sector could be two or three years away while low oil prices continue to weigh on the market, says a US industry leader.

Thank heavens for the rain. The warm, wet summer has been fantastic for growing grass, and our farmers needed that.

Hokitika-based Westland Milk Products chief executive Rod Quin has given notice of his resignation after seven years in the job.

House prices rising and no recovery in dairy prices both pose threats to New Zealand banks, Standard & Poor says.

Finance Minister Bill English says dairy prices will never reach $8 a kilogram again, but he is confident farmers will get through a drop in payouts and rising debt levels.

State-owned Landcorp and China's Shanghai Pengxin Group - the company that bought the distressed Crafar farms in 2012 - are about to part company.

Westpac is forecasting a Fonterra farmgate milk price of $4 this season and $4.60 in 2016/17.

Fonterra has upped production of lactoferrin - a special, high-value protein known in the industry as "pink gold" - at its Hautapu plant, near Cambridge.

It is time for the industry and the politicians to take off their rose-tinted glasses and do some hard-thinking about our major goods export industry, writes Fran O'Sullivan.

For the primary sector the TPP confers boundless opportunities not only for agriculture but for future generations of New Zealanders and their prosperity, writes William Rolleston.

New Zealand shares fell as weaker commodity prices weighed on equities in countries dependent on exports of raw materials.

Fonterra's latest farmgate milk price forecast is already under downward pressure after dairy prices fell for the third time in a row at this morning's GlobalDairyTrade auction.

Dairy farmers are bracing themselves for still more falls in product prices at tomorrow's Global Dairy Trade auction.

Fonterra's multi-million dollar stoush with food giant Danone is due to be fought behind closed doors in Singapore next week

Fonterra posed the question of whether a board stacked with farmers has the right skills to drive a global business.

Synlait Milk has revised its forecast milk price for the 2015 / 2016 season from $5.00 per kilogram to $4.20.

Banks say more heavily indebted New Zealand dairy farmers will be asked to sell up as non-performing loans increase.

Australasian infant formula stocks have proved a pretty good bet lately.

Weakening world dairy prices have pushed Fonterra this morning to announce a cut in its payout to farmers.