Coast & Country

Mill town festival celebrates timber artists

As a town that was founded on the back of a booming logging industry and the ensuing pulp and paper mill, Kawerau is the... read more

Awatea new ambassador of kiwifruit

An 18-year-old with an ambition to become a police officer, and a role model for Maori youth, is 2019's Kiwifruit Ambassador.... read more

New effluent system for new season

With calving in full swing last month at the NZ Young Farmers-owned dairy farm in Auckland, a major upgrade to the operation's... read more

Opportunity to help reshape the Biosecurity Act

The review of the Biosecurity Act provides an opportunity for industry groups to have a say in the future framework to protect... read more

Safe farming through spring

With spring arriving, farmers will be spending more time out on the farm undertaking the new season's jobs. Lambing and... read more

The new generation of Hannons on the land

Introduction: This year the Hannon family of Hautapu, near Cambridge in the Waikato, travelled to the South Island town... read more

Leading the herd on clean green dairying

Posted at 11:47am Thursday 1 Aug

Central North Island dairy company Miraka's focus on sustainable farming practices is showing results, after a...read more

An organic Ngongotaha market garden

Posted at 11:34am Thursday 1 Aug

Rotorua couple Jenny Lux and her husband Richard Gillies have fully embraced the organic life. They have gained...read more

Kauri trees in the Kaimai Ranges

Posted at 10:52am Thursday 1 Aug

A structure of wooden planks, used in the 1900s to gather and unleash water to ‘drive' kauri logs down Western...read more

IHC needs your calves

Posted at 10:45am Thursday 1 Aug

IHC is calling on farmers to once again support its annual calf scheme, which is now in its 35th year. While the...read more

A farm 154 years in the making

Posted at 10:35am Thursday 1 Aug

This year, the Hannon family of Hautapu, near Cambridge in the Waikato, travelled to the small South Island town...read more

Green growers go organic

Posted at 10:29am Thursday 1 Aug

In the last two years since setting up his Western Bay of Plenty orchard management business, Ryan McDonnell has...read more

BLOGS

Our food used to be our medicine

Better soils with Brett Petersen Kiwi Fertiliser & Golden Bay Dolomite There is no more important job than growing food for human consumption.... read more

NZ food must lie at high value end of spectrum

Todd Talks with Todd Muller National MP It's baffling that this Government are more concerned with serving meat at hospitals than flagging... read more

The early signs of grass staggers

Vet's vision with Phil Rennie Tauranga Vets New Zealand's fast growing spring pastures are traditionally low in magnesium and it is this... read more

Hauraki District confirms subdivision and housing rules

Your land surveyed with Brent Trail Surveying Services Ltd The Hauraki District Council has recently completed their public hearing process... read more

Encouraging signs, but the danger remains

Soil matters with Peter Burton Functional Fertiliser Ltd On almost a daily basis I talk and work with farmers moving away from the soil fertility... read more

Farmers: Please remember help is out there

Finance with Don Fraser Fraser Farm Finance I'm appalled at the continued spate of suicides in the farming community. The statistics are basically... read more

The difference between good and bad effluent

Beneath the surface with David Law Forward Farming As the environmental consultant of Sustainable Water 2019 Ltd, Ashburton's Mike Harrison... read more

Time to plan supplementary feed needs

Outlook with Bill Webb Bill Webb Feed Solutions Things have certainly been wetter than they were earlier on this winter, but it's still very... read more

HEADLINES

A tractor full of Otorohanga family’s farm history

Rural contractor Ross Gower of Otorohanga describes the 304-acre property he grew up on as a “floating swamp”....read more

14:27pm Tue 27 Aug

NZ needs to everything it can to stop stink bug

As Opotiki organic kiwifruit grower Mark White stood in an Italian orchard near Verona, back in May, talking to...read more

14:05pm Tue 27 Aug

Have your say on protecting elite soils

With the Government moving to protect our country's most fertile and versatile land from being built on, the public...read more

14:00pm Tue 27 Aug

Sugar beet delivers in Reporoa

Herd-owning Reporoa sharemilker Alastair Neville is singing the praises of sugar beet as a winter crop. Having...read more

13:05pm Tue 27 Aug

Scholarship opportunity up for grabs

For the second year, Avoco is excited to announce a scholarship opportunity for tertiary students in 2020. As...read more

11:39am Tue 27 Aug

The beginnings of Roger Hill and his lab

When Roger Hill and wife Anne began Hill Laboratories in Hamilton 35 years ago, they thought if it grew to four...read more

11:04am Tue 27 Aug

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