It’s 3 o’clock on a March afternoon in a dairy farm on the South Island of New Zealand. Hordes of cattle are lining up for their second milking of the day, forming a black-and-white sea ...

New Zealand, which produces three percent of the world’s milk, announced this week its plan to cull about 150,000 cows to eradicate the disease Mycoplasma bovis. The largest mass animal ...

MPI staff are on Friday back at a farm where winter grazing practices were so bad seven cows had to be euthanised last month. Following a complaint about the Riverton farm, near Invercargill ...