OPINION: Your canine crusader was right on the money about the growing tensions at Fed Farmers over meat and wool chair William Beetham's perceived conflict of interest with his Feds role and directorship at meat company Silver Fern Farms.

Canterbury milk processor Synlait Milk will get a new chairman next month.

Scenes of excitement and jubilation broke out as Wi Pere Trust - a large sheep and beef farming operation at Te Karaka, near Gisborne - was named the winner of this year's Ahuwhenua Trophy for the top Māori sheep and beef farm.

The Hawke's Bay Fruitgrowers Association (HBFA) is making a big pitch to attract more people to take up careers in the horticulture sector.

OPINION: Eight weeks ago, a group of concerned farmers wrote an Open Letter in an attempt to draw attention to the serious risks that the He Waka Eke Noa partnership recommendations to government pose to the future of the extensive sheep, beef, deer and regenerative farms and rural communities.

"It's a privilege and honour."

The Whakatipu Wilding Control Group won the community award at the 2022 Biosecurity Awards.

Christchurch-based New Zealand Merino Company is reporting its third consecutive record annual profit in its financial results for the year to the end of June.

Mac Hops director, Brent McGlashen, is a fifth-generation farmer on his family farm in Nelson.

Citrus is big in Gisborne, but surprisingly there are only a few large scale commercial growers. Instead, as Peter Burke reports, the small to medium growers are the big suppliers and their helping hand comes in the form of a company called Fresh First.