It's easy to see what the small central North Island town of Ohakune is famous for. On the outskirts of the town is a huge carrot and a children's play area based on this popular vegetable.

Working as a farmer and fencing contractor for 15 years made Jerome Wenzlick very familiar with fence posts — now he's “saving the planet one post at a time”.

A German bearing maker claims to have developed the world’s first ‘intelligent plain bearing’, called iglide.

The UXV 700i from Kymco NZ presents a decent set of specifications for a side by side.

John Deere's latest 5R series tractors offer a choice of four units in the all-important 90-125hp sector.

The New Zealand seed company Agricom last week won a major national prize for its Ecotain environmental plantain.

CRV Ambreed has a new national artificial breeding manager, Craig Scott. He was formerly national franchise manager at pregnancy tester Ultrascan Ltd.

It can only get harder to farm during the next 10 to 20 years. 

OPINION: Damien O'Connor is never one to shy away from speaking his mind and ruffling a few feathers, and in a nice way he did this at Federated Farmers’ conference last week.

Waikato Milking Systems will this month exhibit at China’s biggest rural trade show.