New Zealand's wine industry has good irrigation "eco-credentials" with "parsimonious" water use and extremely low-level nitrogen leaching, says Dr Brent Clothier of Plant & Food Research.

Nick Hoskins has spent more than seven years racking up 'IOUs' in Hawke's Bay and Marlborough, forging a holistic view of winegrowing.

German gearbox and transaxle manufacturers ZF has developed an electronic axle said to be capable of converting any conventionally powered vehicle with a solid axle into a battery electric vehicle.

The lactation period runs from two weeks after calving until drying off.

Antibiotic use is under increased pressure because any time we use antibiotics there is an increased risk of bacteria developing resistance.

John Perrin Scholarship recipients Ashleigh van Uffelen, Palmerston North, and Abbey Dowd, South Waikato, are proof that you don't need to be born and bred on a farm to have a passion for the industry and dreams of shaping its future.

My wife and I recently travelled to England to attend a family wedding in rural Kent.

Organisers of the 2023 Ballance Farm Environment Awards are hoping for a record number of entries.

New Zealand's wider agriculture sector is full of smart, diverse leaders who, with more formal governance training, can go toe-to-toe with the independent directors of the country's major agri businesses.

OPINION: The Government can crow about its 'major effort' to upgrade capacity on congested rural broadband networks but the reality on the ground is different.