Horticulture NZ chief executive Kate Scott.

Horticulture New Zealand (HortNZ) says that discovery of a male Oriental fruit fly on Auckland’s North Shore is a cause for concern for growers.

Fonterra has revised its forecast milk collections up to 1,510 million kgMS, following favourable weather conditions.

Fonterra says its earnings for the 2025 financial year are anticipated to be in the upper half of its previously forecast earnings range of 40-60 cents per share.

Lester White, chair Tawapata South Māori Incorporation Onenui Station,Todd McClay, Nukuhia Hadfield Tama Potaka, and Morris Pita, co chair Whangaroa Ngaiotonga Trust. Photo Credit: Alphapix

Maori farms from Northland and Northern Hawkes Bay are the finalists in this year’s prestigious Ahuwhenua Trophy competition  for the top Maori sheep and beef farm.

Sir Mark Dunajtschik (left), Hon. Minister James Meager, CEO Gwyn Thurlow, and Chairman of the National Heritage Trust Bob Badland presenting the Minister with a commemorative Svord knife.

Recently, the New Zealand Deerstalkers Association (NZDA) celebrated a milestone in the opening of the National Hunting and Shooting Museum and Reference Library at Deerstalkers House, Wellington.

New AgriZeroNZ chair Rob Hewett.

Rob Hewett has been appointed the new chair of AgriZeroNZ, the public-private partnership designed to accelerate the development of tools to help Kiwi farmers reduce emissions.

AgResearch chief executive Sue Bidrose.

There's been very little reaction to the government science reform announcement, with many saying the devil will be in the detail.

A committee which carried out the review into New Zealand's science system says the underinvestment will continue to compromise the country's future.

Federated Farmers meat and wool chair, Toby Williams says what the Government has effectively signed up for is a decade more of planting pine trees on productive land because that’s the only way for our country to achieve such a steep reduction.

Get out of the Paris Agreement on climate change – that’s the message from the farmer lobby group Groundswell to the Minister for Climate Change, Simon Watts.

On the cusp of Pinot Noir New Zealand 2025, to be held in Christchurch Ōtautahi 11-13 February, Emma Jenkins MW reflects on the current state of New Zealand Pinot Noir and where it could and should be heading.

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