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Fieldays back with a bang

This year's Fieldays saw close to 133,000 visitors head through the gates over the four days of the event.

National Fieldays 2021 has come and gone, with general consensus being that it was a good event.

Aussie FTA leaves NZ meat sector envious

Beef + Lamb NZ chief executive Sam McIvor says the Australian deal sets a good benchmark for eventual tariff-free access for our sheep meat and beef in the NZ-UK negotiations.

New Zealand's meat sector will be hoping to benefit from a yet-to-be-signed Free Trade Agreement (FTA) that its Australian counterparts are about to enter into with the UK.

Rubber to hit the road on farm gas plans

DairyNZ chair Jim van der Poel says teams will start going to farms from September to talk about how farmers need to report their emissions.

A joint initiative where farmers measure, reduce and pay for greenhouse gas emissions rather than being included in an emissions trading scheme swings into action later this year.

New car regs punish farmers

The new ute tax regime will add $2,900 to the cost of a new Ford Ranger from January next year.

Farmers are again the hapless targets of new government regulations - this time to reduce the country's car fleet carbon emissions.

Despite the disruption of the Covid-19 pandemic, revenue from New Zealand's primary exports in the past season only dropped by 1% and is predicted to quickly pick up and reach a record high of $49.6 billion in the next 12 months.

Pay directive irks farmers

Federated Farmers Southland sharemilker chair Jason Herrick.

A New Zealand Government directive for farmers to pay new overseas workers higher rates has been slammed.

New Aussie farm visas could spell more trouble

A new farm work visa proposed by Australia could cause more misery for labour-strapped New Zealand farmers.

Covid boosts kiwifruit demand

In a somewhat ironic twist, the global Covid pandemic is helping to drive demand for New Zealand kiwifruit.

Grazing sought for drought and flood-affected Canterbury livestock

MPI’s director of Rural Communities and Farming Support Nick Story.

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) says it is helping drought and flood-affected farmers in Canterbury to find alternative grazing for their livestock.

Farmers badly traumatised by M bovis response - report

A University of Otago study has found that the poorly-managed government response to the 2017 M. bovis outbreak inflicted significant and lasting trauma on farmers whose stock were culled.