Public backlash has forced the Ministry of Education (MoE) and Education Minister Erica Stanford to do a U-turn on a proposal to axe agriculture and horticulture science as standalone subjects in the secondary school curriculum.

China looks set to play a key role in helping the New Zealand wool sector shift away from trading as a commodity supplier.

NZPork has appointed Auckland-based Paul Bucknell as its new chair.

The Government claims to have delivered on its election promise to protect productive farmland from emissions trading scheme (ETS) but red meat farmers aren’t happy.

Over the past three years or so, the New Zealand Winegrowers Board has consulted with members on proposals to reform NZW with the simple goal of ensuring the future organisation is fit for purpose.

OPINION: New Zealand is the "last great bastion standing" when it comes to wine imports to the United States, wine-business analyst Rob McMillan told the New Zealand Wine 2025 Wine Business Forum in August.

With the price of fertiliser still significantly higher than 2024, there is an increased onus on ensuring its spread accurately at the correct rate.

Officially launched at the National Fieldays event in June, the Leader in-line conventional PRO 1900 balers are imported and distributed by Cambridge-based Ag Tech-Global Ag Solutions, who were appointed worldwide agents for Leader balers earlier this year.

The Ministry for the Environment is joining as a national award sponsor in the Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA from next year).

Kiwis are wasting less of their food than they were two years ago, and this has been enough to push New Zealand’s total household food waste bill lower, the 2025 Rabobank KiwiHarvest Food Waste survey has found.