OPINION: Plan for the worst and hope for the best!

Landowners are missing out on millions of dollars in carbon credits because of the hassle in becoming carbon farmers.

Green Party co-leader James Shaw doesn’t believe the He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN) Climate Action Partnership proposal will work.

An incoming National government will abolish resource consents for building water storage on farmland.

Nationwide agricultural consultancy firm AgFirst has taken the initiative early on to have plans in place and tools available to help farmers prepare for drought.

Major players in the primary sector are mobilising ahead of predictions that the country is about to be hit by potentially one of the country's worst droughts. Peter Burke reports...

Climate change, record low farmer confidence and an avalanche of government-sponsored regulations dominated the inaugural Rural Issues Debate in Hamilton earlier this month.

Synlait has matched Fonterra in delivering a final milk price of $8.22/kgMS for last season.

Farmers have expressed alarm at some banks setting targets to reduce emissions at a time when the sector is under growing financial strain.

A mid-Canterbury dairy farm has been confirmed infected with Mycoplasma bovis this week after it was first identified by standard bulk tank milk background screening, according to the Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI).