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The agriculture sector faces massive challenges, specifically in terms of ongoing mergers and acquisitions due to consolidation, climate change, severe water shortages and biosecurity threats, to name but a few.

Beef + Lamb New Zealand has thrown its weight behind the Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA) by sponsoring the Livestock Farm Award.

An over-reliance on wild honeybees by pollination-responsive crop producers in Australia may compromise the future resilience of our $30 billion horticulture and agriculture sector.

Emerging market economies - such as China and the Middle East - will provide the most promising export growth opportunities for New Zealand's red meat industries, according to a recently-released industry report.

Queensland's dairy industry will gather on the Sunshine Coast to examine the key challenges facing milk producers in the future.

Beekeepers and the public have been reminded to keep watch for unusual bee behaviour, which could indicate the presence of the potentially devastating condition known as Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD).

New Zealand's agricultural sector is reporting an increasingly rosy view of the future, with 87 per cent of the nation's farmers expecting economic conditions to either improve or remain stable.  The results of the latest Rabobank Rural Confidence Survey, show the fourth consecutive quarterly lift in farmer confidence.

Australian agribusinesses are reporting strong business performance and being rewarded for their long term outlook with 81 per cent of businesses surveyed having operated for more than a decade, reports the fifteenth Westpac and Charles Sturt University (CSU) Agribusiness Index.

The report reveals that agribusiness performance was positive across Australia in the June quarter. Business confidence remained high at an average of 70 per cent and capital expenditure reached the highest level recorded since the quarterly survey began in 2006.