Farmers and politicians will battle it out at Gisborne this Saturday – on a sports field and all in the name of charity.

OPINION: Well, the New Year is certainly with us; yep 2024 is well under way.

A new free-to-use e-learning platform specifically designed for New Zealand hunters was recently launched at the 2023 Sika Show.

Palmerston North is set to rumble with the power and excitement of rural sports this coming March, as Ford New Zealand takes pole position as the naming rights sponsor of the illustrious Ford New Zealand Rural Sports Awards.

In the build-up to the CD Field Days, another popular event is taking place in Palmerston North the week before – the Ford Ranger Rural Games.

With our own National Fieldays only few weeks away, Rural News took the opportunity to take a trip overseas – as a guest of Enterprise Ireland, which invited 190 guests from 19 countries – to look at Ireland’s own national event, locally known as The Ploughing.

DairyNZ is organising a fun event on behalf of the dairy sector, with the aim of attracting young people into a career in dairy farming.

In the week before the CD Field days, Palmerston North hosts the ever-popular NZ Rural Games.

Fitting out an entire dairy herd with wireless digital activity monitors is so effective a management tool that it even reduces human stress.

Champion shot putter Dame Valerie Adams will chance her arm at some very different sports next month at the Hilux New Zealand Rural Games in Palmerston North.