Five hundred years is a long time, but for Ngai Tahu Farming it’s just the beginning – they are working to a 500 year business plan for the iwi.

Rural News' irreverent and hypothetical look at what's happening in the farming world.

The Hound notes that Fonterra’s head of people, culture and safety, Maury Leyland, left the co-op at the end of the month, citing personal reasons.

Your old mate notes that the first group of prisoners from Rimutaka Prison’s new farm skills course graduated early last month.

The Hound reckons Fonterra hardly needs any more reputational damage of late, but its latest PR disasters are really major own-goals.

Your old mate was flabbergasted at the sheer political gall of Labour and the Greens in their latter-day ‘concern for farmers’ in the wake of the recent drop in dairy payout.

There is no better time to get seed into the ground.

Drill specialist Vaderstad has announced a new unique technology called SeedEye.

Despite a tough year or two for dryland farmers in North Canterbury, Hawarden Suffolk stud breeder Penni Loffhagen is philosophical.

As Autumn days shorten, many deer farmers are paying special attention to their rising two-year-old (R2) hinds – the first fawners.

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