Domestic Focus
OPINION: After hogging the media limelight for telling a NZ Chinese MP to "go back home", Winston Peters has decided to focus on a domestic issue - oil and gas drilling.
Ignore our milk at your peril; that’s the message from UK farmers who are taking their protests against low prices to supermarket doors.
Tesco is the latest supermarket to be singled out by dairy farm protesters, who have switched their focus to cheap milk imported from the Continent and turned into butter, cheese and yoghurts; they claim less than half the butter and cheese eaten in Britain is made using milk from British farms.
Protesting farmers used tractors to blockade one of its biggest distribution centres in the UK; recent protests have concentrated on Asda, Morrisons, Aldi and Lidl, which had previously refused to raise milk prices.
B+LNZ's Wormwise veterinarian Mary Bowron has won the Best Sheep and Beef Vet of the Year Award in recognition of her outstanding contribution to New Zealand’s sheep and beef sector.
Researchers at Massey University are using a special piece of scientific equipment to improve the measurement of greenhouse gas emissions from pasture soils.
More signs of a booming kiwifruit sector.
OPINION: David Seymour and James Meager's plan to make it easier for farmers and orchardists to operate drones can best be described a 'courageous' move.
New Zealand wool is reaching new heights as air filtration companies move away from synthetic products to biodegradable alternatives.
Opuha Dam's ability to protect South Canterbury communities from major flooding has taken a significant step forward, with Opuha Water Limited (OWL) successfully commissioning a new outlet valve capable of releasing record volumes of water from the dam ahead of a weather event.