EAT MORE seasonal fruits and vegetables and take advantage of specials. 

A LEADING economist is predicting the New Zealand dollar to drop buffering farmers from lower commodity prices in the coming year.

Alliance Group board candidate and Maniototo farmer, Dawn Sangster, has been on a whirlwind tour meeting groups of South Island farmers interested in the election.

The meat industry must stop dancing on a pinhead and get serious about protecting the future of beef, sheep and deer farming, says Jeff Grant, a candidate for meat processor Alliance board elections.

A NEW Väderstad planter, called Tempo, rapidly and precisely plants maize, corn and sunflower.

FONTERRA SHAREHOLDERS will not get another vote on the co-op's controversial proposed share trading scheme –TAF.

FEDERATED FARMERS is paying tribute to Fonterra chairman Henry van der Heyden, who will step down next year.

AN AUSTRALIAN senate inquiry into the supermarket milk price war has left a bad taste among farmers.

IMPROVING PUBLIC perception of irrigated agriculture is an important challenge for the new Irrigation New Zealand chairman John Donkers.

IT IS six years since I was photographed in front of a huge portrait of Chairman Mao Zedong – while I’m showing the ravages of time; he hasn’t changed a bit.