Gordon Levet is a Northland sheep farmer and ram breeder who has spent a lifetime breeding sheep for worm resistance and facial eczema (FE) tolerance. He began breeding for worm resistance in 1987, recognising that there was a genetic component to a sheep's ability to tolerate worms and this has shaped his thinking on the issue...

The Ovis Management programme, which works to promote control of sheep measles across New Zealand, has appointed a new project manager.

With the first calves born into the Informing New Zealand Beef Programmes now on the ground on Pamu's Kepler Farm near Te Anau, attention has turned to finding a North Island farm to expand the project.

Research by Massey University scientists shows that a change to self-shedding sheep will be profitable in the long-term.

OPINION: Jacqueline Rowarth opined in Rural News, January 19, "Confusion abounds about agricultural greenhouse gases (GHGs) and misinformation is rife".

Dairy Women’s Network (DWN) has announced that 2019 Fonterra Dairy Woman of the Year Trish Rankin will take up the role of chair.

Brent Kleiss has been appointed as the new chief executive of NZPork, the statutory industry body working to support New Zealand’s commercial pig farmers.

Expect big jumps in both international grain and fertiliser prices.

You can thank Jacinda Ardern for the latest price increase of any new ute you now buy.

Hawke’s Bay company Kabocha Milk Co has scooped two international food innovation awards at the 2022 World Food Innovation Awards in London.