A recent community-led event in Ruatoria provided aid for farmers and communities still grappling with the aftermath of Cyclones Hale and Gabrielle.

Police in the Waitematā North district are urging landowners to ensure their fences are secure after several complaints about wandering stock.

'Tried and tested for more than 15 years’ was a phrase that came to mind when an ex-dairy farmer in Taranaki decided to set up a fencing business in the Manawatu and had a post rammer on the shopping list.

Newly-crowned national ambassadors for sustainable farming, Evan and Linda Potter say they are very humbled to win this year's Ballance Farm Environment Awards.

A lifestyle farmer has been fined $17,500 for the reckless ill-treatment of his sheep, failing to provide them with proper feed, and not treating them for parasites.

Halter claims to remove the need for fences, gates and even the farm dog.

The latest in rural technology, equipment and specialist knowledge from around the world will be showed off next month at the Southern Field Days.

Four years after he quit farming, Tim Deans, an engineering-savvy guy, has emerged from his Rangiora workshop with a new electric fence add-on.

Planning is crucial to designing a safe, effective effluent pond.

Rex and Lynette Smith have spent decades building a successful charter fishing company. Now they've set up a beef cattle operation in Fiji from scatch.