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Aussie beef farmers leave smaller green footprint

Australian beef farmers are reducing their environmental footprint.

Australian beef farmers have markedly reduced their greenhouse gas emissions and water use in the last 30 years, according to a new study.

MPI in for the long haul

The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) remains confident the isolated population of Queensland fruit fly will be eradicated from Auckland.

Agriculture will remain under increasing scrutiny from regulators and consumers and it is up to the industry to educate them, says Landcorp's general manager of people and capabilities, Anna Cassel-Brown.

All quiet on fruit fly front

Horticulture NZ chief executive, Peter Silcock.

The horticulture industry will not have to pay towards the Queensland fruit fly response in Auckland this time – but it will be liable in the future under the Government Industry Agreements.

Outstanding in her field

2015 Dairy Woman of the Year, Katie Milne.

Dairy Woman of the Year 2015 Katie Milne hopes to use her new profile for the wider good of New Zealand farming.

Kiwifruit reforms get growers’ approval

Retired kiwifruit growers with ‘dry’ shares in Zespri will have seven years to sell these under new proposals in the Kiwifruit Industry Strategy Project.

Fonterra’s Australian business struggling

Theo Spierings and John Wilson presenting Fonterra’s poor interim result.

Fallout from the 2013 false botulism scare and poor yoghurt sales continue to haunt Fonterra’s Australian business.

Three of the best up for award

Parengarenga Incorporation general manager, John Ellis,

Two finalists in this year’s Ahuwhenua Trophy competition for the top Maori sheep and beef farm, Mangaroa and Maranga, are in typical East Coast hill country.

Good Evans – 40 years and still drawing reaction

It's almost 40 years since the longsuffering, ever capable Edna, with her spotted dress and rather dour husband, first appeared in cartoons to give a lighted-hearted look at New Zealand country life.

Forestry levy cuts it

A little over a year since its implementation, the Harvested Wood Material levy, better known as the 'forestry levy', is "going really well," says the outgoing president of the New Zealand Farm Forestry Association.