The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) is deciding whether there are grounds to reasses the use of the herbicide glyphosate in NZ.

In the light of a possible drought due to El Nino - particularly along the East Coast of the North Island - Beef + Lamb NZ is busy running workshops to help farmers in the region to cope with any eventuality.

As rain pours down on David Birkett's Leeston arable farm, he takes a sigh of relief ahead of the predicted dry summer.

Rabobank's latest rural confidence survey shows a minus 72% confidence reading - eclipsing last June’s historic minus 57% - the lowest in the survey’s 20-year history.

For many farmers in cyclone ravaged Hawke's Bay things are starting to come right, according to AgFirst farm consultant Lochie MacGillivray.

The worst of the current dairy price cycle may be over, claims Westpac senior agricultural economist Nathan Penny.

Ruawai dairy farmer and returning ACT MP Mark Cameron is happy about the high number of farmers in the new Parliament.

DairyNZ's new chief executive Campbell Parker says the dairy sector should take lessons from the stalled primary sector climate action partnership He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN) and move forward.

A recently formed pressure group is upping its campaign against any implementation of a methane tax.

Palmerston North is set to rumble with the power and excitement of rural sports this coming March, as Ford New Zealand takes pole position as the naming rights sponsor of the illustrious Ford New Zealand Rural Sports Awards.

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