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Farmers come ‘FAR’ and wide to open day and the heat

Farmers catch up while exploring FAR’s trial farm at Chertsey, Mid Canterbury, earlier this month.

It was grassroots intelligence for farmers last week, when the Foundation for Arable Research (FAR) opened the gates to its Chertsey trial farm in Mid Canterbury.

West Coast farmers show the way

Westland Milk Products chair Matt O’Regan says the co-op was dedicated to helping clean up Lake Brunner.

Bucking public perception of dirty dairying – fanned by environmental groups and mainstream media reporting – West Coast dairy farmers have played a big part in cleaning up the biggest waterway in the region.

NZ’s favourite ute upgrade worth the wait

The new Hi-Lux range has expanded to 21 models, 9 two-wheel drive and 12 four-wheel drive.

It wouldn't be speaking out of turn to call the Toyota Hi-Lux New Zealand's favourite ute.

Ag twits

(From top-left): hanskrieksafe, ahoggardfedfarms, jcollinsminister. (From bottom-left): johnkeypm, johnmcarthymie, tgrosserusambassador, tspieringsfonterra.

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

Horticulture grows up in the primary sector family

Horticulture in New Zealand is the little brother to the major powers of the dairy, meat, forestry and wine sectors.

Summer delicacy takes a lot of work

Ashley Boyd (left), Tony Rickman and Alex Boyd from Boyds Asparagus, Cambridge.

Asparagus on supermarket shelves usually points to summer being just around the corner

Flush the dunny on 2015, bring on 2016!

There's no doubt 2015 has been a tough year for those of us in the agricultural contracting sector.

Extremists’ views place heavy cost on farming and consumers

The 'businessman' who threatened the NZ dairy industry with 1080 contamination in baby formula if use of the pest-killing poison wasn't terminated apparently intended to gain economic advantage for a product of his own.

Farming is never SAFE - editorial

'Grossly irresponsible' is how New Zealand's special agricultural trade envoy Mike Petersen has rightly described animal rights group SAFE's placement of an anti-NZ dairy farming ad in a British newspaper.

Yap, yap

A mate of the Hound reckons Fonterra's Shareholder Council has proven it's nothing more than a lapdog of the Fonterra board rather than a watchdog for the co-op's farmer shareholders.