A Kiwi-made technology platform is giving a Bay of Plenty orchard manager the edge when it comes to weather forecasting and managing pests and diseases on his property.

Vegetable growers are warning that an emissions trading scheme (ETS) will only push up prices of produce, lower consumption and make them less competitive in export markets.

At an awards dinner last night, four winners were announced as the winners of the 2022 Fieldays Innovation Awards.

After two years of Covid chaos, many growers and wineries will have entered 2022 hoping for a better, more ‘normal’ 12 months ahead.

I am often asked whether it's difficult whether it's difficult to find enough wine stories to fill a magazine.

Pipe fittings and valve manufacturer Hansen has taken out the Supreme Site award at the National Fieldays.

As agriculture moves rapidly into the technological age, the advancement of Irishmade autonomous farm machinery is being enhanced by researchers at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software and Tipperary-based Abbey Machinery, who recently announced a new research partnership agreement.

As a fourth-generation farmer I spend a bit of time looking back and cherishing some of those aspects of foundation, and equally use that history to marvel at the changes we have seen over time.

Auckland "transplants" Donovan Croot and Sophie Cookson are living the dairy farming dream in Taranaki as 50/50 sharemilkers of a Holstein Friesian herd.

The recently released NIWA weather outlook for this summer makes interesting reading.