The future of New Zealand's horticulture industry could rest with finalists in the 2013 Young Horticulturist of the Year contest.

THE FASTER you get a dog with twisted gut to the vet’s, the more likely it can be saved, so don’t delay.

THOUSANDS OF cattle and deer herds have had TB movement controls or testing requirements removed or scaled down thanks to the success of the TB-free New Zealand programme, says the Animal Health Board.

DON’T RUSH to dry off cows without first doing your sums.

NEW ZEALAND has a potential problem: we don’t know where all our pigs are, where they’re going, or where they’ve been.

JAMES LUX, Papamoa Beach, has won the title of New Zealand’s top excavator operator, against 11 other contenders. The final took place at Central Districts Field Days, Feilding.

Westland Milk Products, New Zealand's second largest dairy cooperative, has made a strategic step into the international paediatric nutrition market with the commissioning of a state-of-the-art nutritionals plant at Hokitika.

Walton farmers Grant Wills and Karen Preston have scooped a string of awards in the 2013 Waikato Ballance Farm Environment Awards, including the highly coveted Supreme title.

Last week lamb prices remained stable with most at $4.30-4.40/kg (gross). Lamb space has still been pretty jammed up but there is definitely light at the end of the tunnel now.

More than 150 soil scientists from around 30 countries will meet in Queenstown in April to discuss the ins and outs of testing soil.