A Lincoln-developed optical nitrate sensor for groundwater is now in use nationwide after a low-key but successful commercial launch.

A top US facility that globally supplies the latest cultivars for the pipfruit and stonefruit industry has lost interest in dealing with New Zealand.

Farmers and growers need to look hard at the opportunities and benefits biological products and pesticides could bring to their businesses.

The first batch of candidates for the 2018 Fonterra farmer director elections will be unveiled next week.

A full merger of Lincoln University and the University of Canterbury would be a “very unlikely” outcome of their partnership talks, says Lincoln vice-chancellor Professor James McWha.

An upsurge in horticultural plantings has raised flags in Central Otago about impending shortages in availability of seasonal workers and beds to accommodate them, especially at harvest time. 

Not long ago Simon Limmer was extolling the virtues of kiwifruit as chief operating officer of Zespri, now he's marketing red meat as chief executive of Silver Fern Farms.

Animal-rights organisation Save Animals from Exploitation (SAFE) are calling to ban intensive feedlots, which it termed “the Americanisation” of agriculture.

A new entry-level Range Rover Velar is set to be the model Kiwi motorists can better afford. 

Best known as the dairy capital of New Zealand, Waikato can also claim to be the nation’s home of tea.