Fonterra has announced it expects to make a reported loss of $590-675 million this financial year, taking into account likely write-downs. The announcement... Read More

With the 2019-2020 export season just weeks away, New Zealand’s largest avocado marketing company is backing itself to reward growers with favourable... Read More

It’s on its way – spring that is. And, all those busy activities we’ve been building for during autumn and winter months. So it’s... Read More

It was the unmistakable silhouette of a wallaby that excited. A Facebook post of an about-to-be deceased wallaby as it leapt across the railway lines... Read More

When Peter Harington bought Rotorua Forest Nursery last year he hit the ground running, doubling previous production to an estimated nine million trees... Read More

There has been no let-up in Biosecurity New Zealand’s response to fruit fly finds in the Northcote area, with restrictions remaining in place to... Read More

When Te Kauwhata maize grower Peter Kelly was nominated by his farm advisor Malcolm Smith for a Federated Farmers Industry Group Arable award, he didn’t... Read More

More than 250 people from every facet of New Zealand’s kiwifruit industry – and Agricultural Minister Damien O’Connor – celebrated... Read More

Within the next five-10 years, it’s likely New Zealand’s livestock farmers will be able to employ selective breeding, methane inhibitors... Read More

Biosecurity New Zealand has provisionally released new rules intended to keep brown marmorated stink bugs out of the country. The new regulations will... Read More

Rural contractor Neville Rawlings grew up on a 120-cow dairy farm in Mangawhero Rd, Otorohanga. His family were also rural contractors, and used a 1952... Read More

Central North Island dairy company Miraka’s focus on sustainable farming practices is showing results, after a record number of farms received... Read More

Rotorua couple Jenny Lux and her husband Richard Gillies have fully embraced the organic life. They have gained organic certification on their 1.1ha... Read More

A structure of wooden planks, used in the 1900s to gather and unleash water to ‘drive’ kauri logs down Western Bay of Plenty hills to sawmills,... Read More

IHC is calling on farmers to once again support its annual calf scheme, which is now in its 35th year. While the risk of spreading Mycoplasma bovis... Read More