To mark Mental Health Awareness week, Taranaki dairy farmer Kane Brisco recently joined a recent DairyNZ podcast to share some timely advice on how farmers could take care of themselves.

LIC's new general manager operations and service Mark Julian wants to continue helping farmers breed better cows and boost productivity.

DairyNZ chair Jim van der Poel says, while the proposal has adopted many key recommendations from the He Waka Eke Noa Partnership, the Government has made significant changes that will be a focus for the sector during the six-week consultation.

Former National leader Todd Muller has taken over as acting spokesman for agriculture, biosecurity and food safety.

The Government's proposal to deal with agricultural emissions has stunned many rural communities who warn that it will decimate them and replace sheep and beef farms with pine trees.

Suburban Auckland might not seem the logical start line for a stellar career in grape growing.

The term terroir is widely used in the commercial wine world. It has traditionally been used to reflect a fusion of climate and land classification coupled to the opinions of ‘expert’ marketers and wine writers.

As part of the recently announced Deutz Fahr 6C Series tractors, the RV Shift version takes up an interesting position between the conventional semi-powershift models and the top-of-the-range variable TTV offers.

Peter McNab has been involved with TB Free for more than 30 years and was a key driver and supporter of the programme through the times when bovine TB was present in many herds in Otago. After 33 years on the Otago OSPRI Committee he has stepped down. Here is his story.

Drench resistance has been around for more than 40 years, but its impact was not a problem, as effective newly developed chemicals became available.