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.

Apple company Rockit Global Limited is planning for its biggest planting year yet - targeting a further 200ha of trees in the ground in 2023.

The impact of a new European Union free trade agreement removing a 17.3% tariff on NZ-sourced honey in July is translating into increasing sales volumes, according to one exporter.

In an unusual move, the Māori Trustee and chief executive of Te Tumu Paeroa Dr Charlotte Severne says she'll be making a submission on the Government's agricultural emissions proposals.

The battle lines are being drawn between the small, isolated northern Hawke's Bay farming town of Wairoa, pop. 8000, against the big guns of Jacinda Ardern and what they see as her anti-farming government and its plans to unfairly tax agricultural emissions. Peter Burke reports...