The family behind Te Ranga farms have won the regional supreme award at the Bay of Plenty Ballance Farm Environment Awards.

Time is running out for farmers to have their say on funding two important primary sector programmes.

Simon and Josi Beamish and Hugo & Pip Beamish of Awapai have been announced as the regional supreme winners at the East Coast Ballance Farm Environment Awards in Gisborne this week.

A worsening drought in the northern South Island has seen the newly built Waimea Community Dam – in the hills behind Nelson – is doing what it was designed to do for the first time.

The finalists in this year’s Ahuwhenua Trophy competition to select the top Māori dairy farm in the country are now busy planning and organising field days at their respective properties.

While confident that the apiculture sector can meet its target of doubling honey exports by 2030, chair of ApicultureNZ, Nathan Guy, says it will be challenging.

Farmers round the country are calling on the Government to rein in councils that are trying to push through district plans and other planning processes despite reforms coming to the Resource Management Act (RMA).

Comvita bee and nature advocacy lead Noelani Waters describes her role, educating people on bees and honey, as a privilege.

Today is International Women’s Day, and this year Fonterra wants to shine a light on the women who defy stereotypes and prosper in traditionally male-dominated fields. Erin Wootten, a tanker operator out of the Fonterra Reparoa Site, is doing just that.

A dairy farm working to increase endangered skink numbers and a boutique farm selling milk in recycled bottles will open their gates to the public this Sunday.