It's crunch time for dairy farmers this week when Fonterra releases its farmgate milk price forecast for the coming 2015/16 season.

There's been another fall in world dairy prices, with the GDT index down to its lowest level since August 2009.

Producer input and output prices fell in the first quarter, reflecting lower fuel costs and weakness in prices of meat and dairy products.

Farm prices have continued to rise, despite the near halving of milk prices over the past year, according to Real Estate Institute of New Zealand data.

Farm prices have continued to rise, despite the near halving of milk prices over the last year, according to REINZ.

Australia and New Zealands' Budgets speak volumes of the strength of their respective economies and their citizens' state of mind.

Fonterra's strategy has to start delivering or its market share will shrink further, says Federated Farmers Otago dairy chairman Stephen Crawford.

McVitty Properties has completed its liquidation, leaving creditor BNZ with a shortfall of about $2.6 million.

ANZ New Zealand boss David Hisco says the country's biggest bank is working closely with rural customers as falling dairy prices begin to bite, but farmers are better placed to deal with the....

Exchange operator NZX has bought livestock market information business iFarm for an undisclosed sum.

New Zealand commodity prices had their biggest decline since the height of the global financial crisis in 2008, led by falling dairy product prices.

Market signals suggest international dairy prices will again fall at this week's GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) auction.

The Saudi Arabian visit was a return to the old Key model of jet setting, glad-handing and grandstanding, which we can now see has never worked, writes Paul Little.

Fonterra has fallen into line with market expectations after oversupply and extreme volatility on world dairy markets prompted the co-operative to once again lower its farmgate milk price.

New Zealand should take a leaf out of Australia's book in terms of what not to do in the face of a commodities boom, says Paul Bloxham, HSBC's chief economist for Australia and New Zealand.

International dairy prices fell for the third time in a row at this morning’s GlobalDairyTrade auction.

Toby Manhire writes an open letter to the dollar, the plucky little fighter that’s given those Aussies one in the eye.

Australians are admitting that New Zealand is now the place to be as its residents cross the Tasman to find a home here.

Dairy product prices declined in the latest GlobalDairyTrade auction, led by a slump in prices for butter milk powder and whole milk powder.

Mortgage payments for Auckland's most affordable homes are costing first-time buyers nearly half their take-home pay each week, a new report shows.

Rationalisation of the New Zealand meat industry could take place through collaboration in processing and freight, rather than through mergers and acquisitions, says Silver Fern Farms chairman Rob Hewett.

The Prime Minister was quick to "rip up" the Government's intended reform of the Resource Management Act after the Northland byelection. Suspiciously quick.

Bill English says he is not surprised that the Salvation Army has decided against buying state houses from the Government.

A former NZ Home of the Year which comes with its own private boat ramp, and was once home to a boat builder's yard, is on the market for the first time.

NZ and the US have escalated a complaint against Indonesia to the World Trade Organisation on import restrictions.

New Zealand's economy grew 0.8 per cent in the last three months of 2014, led by retail and accommodation, Statistics New Zealand said today.