The vagaries of the weather pose challenges for animals, as well as people. Work by Massey University researcher and senior lecturer in sheep production, Dr Rene Corner-Thomas, has come up with a novel way of how farmers can help their stock. Peter Burke reports...

An online platform available to New Zealand orchardists through their industry bodies has the potential to lift productivity and save growers thousands of dollars in lost crops.

After 30 years’ dairying on the same Bay of Plenty farm, Donna and Corrie Smit have learnt lessons on weathering everything from devastating floods to milk price fluctuations.

Kubota New Zealand has launched the Land Pride Rotary Tiller range.

OPINION: There are sound reasons why emissions taxing NZ food producers is not just a bad idea for farmers and food prices but also bad for the environment, the climate and our country.

OPINION: Democracy is under attack.

T&G Global and the New Zealand Superannuation Fund further extended their partnership in late December with the sale of T&G's Riwaka orchard in Nelson, to the fund's rural investment manager FarmRight.

Michael Franks describes himself as effectively running a company that is a 'hotel for kiwifruit'. His customers are kiwifruit: green, gold and red. Peter Burke recently caught up with him at Seeka360, Seeka's Te Puke headquarters.

Te Anau Downs Station owner Peter Chartes - who won a four-year legal battle with the Southland District Council (SDC) last October - has now received a $300,000 payout from the council.

NZ's horticultural exports have risen in dollar terms, but at the same time, percentage wise, the tariffs these incur have dropped by nearly two thirds since 2004.