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Wairarapa farmers leading the way with wetland restoration

Wairarapa farmers have been working to preserve the wetlands in their local area.

A partnership of Wairarapa farmers is part of a growing wetland restoration movement to build community resilience against flooding, drought, landslides and water pollution.

New independent director for Beef + Lamb New Zealand

Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) has appointed Bayden Barber as an independent board director.

Striking the environmental balance

Waikato Regional Council say they made 21 environmental prosecutions in the last 12 months.

Compliance, monitoring and enforcement data released by Waikato Regional Council for 2019/20 show that 21 environmental prosecutions were completed over 12 months, with 42 convictions against 23 polluters.

Company linked to Fonterra's chair cops $47k fine

A Waikato Regional Council officer inspecting the extent of over application of effluent at the Trinity Lands farm

A large dairy farming operation, linked to Fonterra chairman Peter McBride, has been fined $47,000 for an effluent management breach.

Outlook for 2021 'bristling with risk'

Rabobank senior dairy analyst Emma Higgins.

Amid significant global turbulence, New Zealand agricultural producers are poised to enjoy a fifth consecutive year of general profitability in 2021, according to a new report by Rabobank.

MBIE funds hemp research

MBIE will provide funding to a project researching hemp and its qualities.

A Taranaki-based medicinal cannabis and industrial hemp venture is part of a group that will investigate ways to turn hemp seed hulls into products for the global market.

Helmut's last harvest

Former chairman and managing director of Claas Group Helmut Claas recently died aged 94.

Helmut Claas, long-time managing director and chairman of the CLAAS group, has died at the age of 94.

Bill's legacy lives on

Founding director Bill McIntosh (right) at McIntosh Farm Machinery's Fieldays site solving the world's problems with Brian Hight.

The founding director of a top local farm machinery manufacturer has died, leaving behind a legacy based on strength and reliability – personal traits that live on in his company and the products it builds.

NZ ag machinery sector looks to brighter times

While some parts of the New Zealand economy have been damaged beyond repair by the Covid-19 pandemic, the country’s ag machinery sector is not one of them.

A post-Covid boom for manufacturers?

The world's major agricultural tractor and machinery manufacturers seem to be faring well despite the economic fallout of the global pandemic.

With many industries hit hard by the Covid pandemic, it seems the popular consensus is that agriculture will be the saving grace for many countries’ economies.