Growing a wide range of fruit varieties is the key to handling the vagaries of weather and climate for North Canterbury orchardist Paul Tapper.

OPINION: The Christmas season is certainly upon us; ready or not, here we are!

After 50 years of working closely with farmers and contractors, Paul Wilkins has been awarded the Tractor and Machinery Association's (TAMA) 2022 President's Award for Service to the Industry.

There's September snow falling in Central Otago as James Dicey explains the wine label he and his brother Matt launched last year.

Growing grapes has been a balancing act between personal satisfaction and economic sustainability, says New Zealand Winegrowers Fellow Chris Howell.

Pinot Noir was bigger than Texas in the minds of Martinborough Vineyard's founders when Larry McKenna arrived in 1985 to be the winemaker and 20% shareholder.

The year Edward Donaldson was born, his parents planted one of the South Island's first vineyards, with a "fruit salad bowl of varieties" in Halswell.

Otorohanga dairy farmer Mark Sanson admits he gets cow envy when he drives past the Waikato farm of a fellow Holstein Friesian breeder - but it won't be long until his own herd is the subject of many in admiring glance.

Southern Star Farms Ltd is a 456ha mixed farm near Waituna Lagoon, Southland, which runs 300 Jersey cows and 2500 breeding ewes.

Northland farmer Murray Jagger says it's time to focus on alternative pastures that can deliver better milk and beef yield.