Aerial application of herbicides, fertiliser and seeds could be the answer to preventing soil erosion.

Making changes to farm management practices, rather than expensive infrastructure, can help reduce greenhouse gases.

Federated Farmers is calling on the Government to reject most of the raft of new taxes proposed by the Tax Working Group (TWG).

OPINION: Environmentalists fall into two categories: wizards and prophets.

The organisers say this year’s South Island Agricultural Field Days (SIAFD) will be bigger and more diverse than ever.

Farm sales dropped slightly, according to data released today by the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand.

Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s chief executive Sam McIvor says the environment is at the heart of everything sheep and beef farmers do.

Farmers at Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s annual meeting in Timaru yesterday were treated to an exclusive look at its Taste Pure Nature country of origin brand, which is just about to begin its pilot rollout in California.

Controls on the movement of fruit and vegetables in the Auckland suburbs of Devonport and Ōtara have been lifted after no further fruit fly have been found there.

In a follow-up to this old mutt’s piece two issues ago about Fonterra directors getting to grips with the co-op’s financial state and loudly sharing their dismay in the Koru club, another of the Hound’s spies has passed on more news in the ‘Fonterra director watch’ category.

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