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.

Africa is mystical and wild, a destination that changes you forever, like no other place on earth. 

Copper deficiency is again stalking New Zealand’s cattle, brought on by traditional pastoral deficiency and shifts in farming practices over the past two decades.

Finding the right vocabulary to set a wine apart from its competitors isn’t easy.

There has been a lot of talk about peer influence on consumers buying wine.