As New Zealand’s wine industry celebrates its 200th year, Dr Richard Smart provides us with a story that links New Zealand wine to the Vatican.

OPINION: The groundswell supporting the restoring powers of regenerative agriculture is mostly based on examples from overseas.

The Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI) says controls of movement of fruits and vegetables in Auckland’s Northcote suburb may remain in place throughout winter.

There is no need to introduce Dr Mike Trought when he appears as a speaker at a wine conference.

Well-known South Canterbury dairy farmer John Gregan questioned BLNZ chair, at last month’s annual meeting, Andrew Morrison about his organisation’s treatment of dairy farmers.

Controls on the movement of fruit and vegetables in the Auckland suburbs of Devonport and Ōtara have been lifted after no further fruit fly have been found there.

Two more male Queensland fruit fly have been found in Northcote, bringing the total to six.

More fruit flies have been found in Auckland. 

A second type of fruit fly has been found in a surveillance trap in the Auckland suburb of Otara.

Your canine crusader was amused to hear that the spin doctors at Twitch & Tweet – more commonly known as Forest & Bird – were unhappy with the way one of its activists was described in a story run in Rural News in December last year on the way the government farmer Landcorp is playing politics and sucking up to the environmental sector.