Arise Sir Paddy
OPINION: Missed out on a knighthood in the King’s Birthday Honours, again?
Climate Change Minister James Shaw has released the Climate Change Adaptation Technical Working Group’s (CCATWG) recommendations.
Rural Women New Zealand (RWNZ) is disappointed by yet another increase in airfares for the regions.
Kiwifruit exporter Zespri says it has delivered an increase in value to growers, despite sales dropping 11%.
A charity boxing event in Cambridge has raised $10,000 for Land Search and Rescue New Zealand (LandSAR).
For the first time in the competition’s history, there are two winners of the Young Vegetable Grower of the Year competition: Esteban Ibanez and Gurjant Singh.
The Government has allocated “an extraordinarily small sum” to strengthen Biosecurity, National’s spokesperson for Agriculture Nathan Guy says.
Work will start immediately to improve New Zealand’s animal tracing system, says Agriculture and Biosecurity Minister Damien O’Connor.
Independently-owned Rural News Group says its newspapers will continue to serve the primary sector.
Controversial farm management tool Overseer is getting $5 million state funding for an upgrade.
To keep waterways clean, deer farmers are fencing their deer out of streams.
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Taranaki farmer Roger Pearce is confident he’s hit a good formula allowing him to make a successful living in the eastern Taranaki hillcountry without bringing nature’s wrath on himself
New Zealand horticulture had another record breaking year in 2017; exports reaching $5.12 billion, up $14 million from the year before.
Race and rally drivers’, do it, airplane passengers do it, even the Fonterra tanker drivers do it — so why is it that most farmers and contractors don’t appear to see the need to wear a seat belt?
Lexus and Farmlands, the country’s largest rural supplies co-operative, have a new partnership.
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