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OPINION: Dust ups between rural media and PR types aren't unheard of but also aren't common, given part of the…
The completion of the second stage of an ambitious project to rewild a once grazed Northland valley into a lush wetland has been celebrated with an event to mark World Wetlands Day this month.
Preparations for the three-day Northland Field Days are progressing smoothly, says president John Phillips.
An amazing team of volunteers are working behind the scenes to get the Dargaville-based show grounds ready for the three-day event.
Organisers of the Northland Field Days are banking on better weather and a better turnout this year.
Australia-based French chef Manu Feildel has teamed up with Ingham’s NZ to launch the poultry producer’s Dinner Done campaign.
The sale of a prized Southdown stud ram has helped put close to 4,300 meals on the table for people facing food insecurity this year.
29-year-old sheep, beef and arable farmer Zac Thomas is the first grand finalist in this year’s FMG Young Farmer of the Year competition after winning the Otago Southland FMG Young Farmer of the Year competition last weekend.
Farmers will get an opportunity to see the Informing New Zealand Beef (INZB) genetics programme in action at a field day at Lochinver Station next month.
A disease that costs the primary industry more than $200 million a year is potentially coming to a place near you soon.
Agri-innovators, top-flight speakers and two full days of networking are the promise of the 2024 East Coast Farming Expo.
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OPINION: This year's National Rural Health Conference, being held in Wellington, has attracted a record number of interested rural health experts passionate about improving equity for rural communities in all ares of health and wellbeing.
OPINION: The Mycoplasma bovis (M. bovis) Programme is now in the sixth year of the 10-year eradication programme.
OPINION: "The treaty is our past, present and future. It has shaped the country we have become, and the obligations it imposes on both sides will always be with us. However, we must aspire to go forward not as two sides, but together as New Zealanders because there is more than unites us than divides us."
OPINION: This old mutt hears some of the world's favourite cheese could soon disappear off shop shelves unless science can find a way to save the mould that makes them.
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OPINION: The Hound hears from his canine pals in Southland that an individual's derogatory remarks on social media have left…
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