Goats can be like pets and easier to handle than dairy cattle, says Oete Farms director Matt Bolton.

Entries are now open for the 2015 Enterprising Rural Women Awards (ERWA).

Trevelyans Packhouse on the outskirts of Te Puke is reminiscent of terminal one at London’s Heathrow international airport – in that it never seems to end. 

Australian agriculture has almost limitless potential according to a landmark white paper on agricultural competitiveness released at the beginning of July. 

Last month more than 150 agricultural contractors from all around the country gathered in Blenheim for the Rural Contractors New Zealand’s (RCNZ) annual conference.

Two international events will take our attention this year: the TPP negotiations and the climate change summit in Paris in November.

The Hound notes that Lincoln University’s vice-chancellor Andrew West has suddenly resigned. This old mutt hopes West’s replacement is not serial bow-tie wearer and rent-a-quote Lincoln academic Keith Woodford.

A mate of the Hound recently attended the annual conference of Rural Contactors NZ, held in Blenheim in late June.

Your old mate has become increasingly frustrated by the ridiculous claims of animal fundamentalists at SAFE about live sheep shipment to Mexico; these are never challenged by mainstream media.

Labour's former leader and infamous dead fish holder David Shearer has been making a lot of noise about milk costing more than Coke.

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