Keep Your Food Safe This Festive Season: NZ Food Safety Tips
New Zealand Food Safety (NZFS) is reminding New Zealanders to keep food safety top of mind as they head into the festive season.
OPINION: Is it time for the Government to re-look at regulations pertaining to the sale of raw milk?
In recent weeks, several New Zealand raw milk sellers have been forced to recall their products due to fears they may contain either listeria or campylobacter.
The milk was sold via home deliveries, in one-litre glass bottles, and classified as raw (unpasteurised) drinking milk.
Farmers can sell raw drinking milk directly to consumers, either at their farm or by home delivery. Farmers, depot operators, and transporters of raw milk need to meet certain requirements to minimise risks to public health.
Rules for producing and selling raw drinking milk are set by the Ministry for Primary Industries. Time to tighten up those rules?
Horticulture New Zealand (HortNZ) has released its 2026 election manifesto, outlining priorities to support the sector’s growth, resilience, and contribution to New Zealand’s food security and export revenue.
Farmers have voted to continue the Milksolids Levy that funds DairyNZ.
Fonterra chief executive Miles Hurrell has resigned after eight years in the role.
Matt McRae, a farmer from Mokoreta in Southland who runs a sheep, beef and dairy support business alongside a sheep stud, has been elected to the Beef +Lamb NZ Board as a farmer director.
Ravensdown's next evolution in smart farming technology, HawkEye Pro, was awarded the Technology Section Award at the Southern Field Days Farm Innovation Awards in February 2026.
While mariners may recognise a “dog watch” as a two-hour shift on a ship, the Good Dog Work Watch is quite a different concept and the clever creation of Southland siblings Grace (9) and Archer Brown (7), both pupils at Riverton Primary School.
OPINION: Expect the Indian free trade deal to feature strongly in the election campaign.
OPINION: One of the world's largest ice cream makers, Nestlé, is going cold on the viability of making the dessert.