Rural health advocate Dr Jeremy Webber was awarded a Distinguished Fellowship of The Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners at the recent GP22 conference in Christchurch.

A project that aims to educate Kiwi schoolchildren about wool will see the 25,000th student pass through its wool sheds this month.

Recognition is urgently needed on a new measure for short and long-lived greenhouse gases and their impact on global warming.

Despite claims by NZ carpet manufacturer Bremworth that an international rival has abandoned a court battle about the benefits of wool carpets, the legal stoush is far from over.

The old Hawke’s Bay Farmers’ Co-op Association garage in Hastings has become home to a new mural celebrating the activities that happened in the building.

A Hawke's Bay-based farm consultant reckons there will be a need for farm system changes next season in order for farmers to meet new winter grazing regulations.

The new boss of the environmental software tool Overseer claims there is much support in the agri sector for what they are trying to do and that criticism of the tool appears to have gone quiet.

Farmgate prices for dairy and meat this season are likely to be lower compared to the year past, says BNZ senior economist Doug Steel.

Teachers have welcomed a move by the Government to put money into supporting secondary school agricultural and horticultural science and to get more students into a career in the ag and hort sectors.

Fonterra has updated its earnings guidance for the 2022 financial year that ended on 31 July 2022, indicating that earnings will be towards the top end of its current guidance of 25 – 35 cents per share.