A farm near Christchurch has been fined $45,000 by the Employment Relations Authority (ERA) for exploiting ‘volunteer’ workers, following a Labour Inspectorate investigation.

“Volume fell but value rose overall, influenced in part by rising prices and taxes but also by a discernible shift among consumers towards choosing quality over quantity.”

New Zealand's new national ambassadors for sustainable farming and growing, Mark and Catriona White, are getting better-than-average production out of their kiwifruit operation using organic farming methods.

OPINION: The Good Farming Practice Action Plan for Water Quality shows tangibly that the primary sector and local and central government intend to work together to enhance streams and rivers.

When someone learns the skills to drive a big, expensive piece of farm machinery, a whole world of opportunity opens up.

Genuine innovation in the agriculture sector tends to come out of smaller, not larger, companies, says the managing director of a New Zealand agri-technology company.

Alliance Group has shipped its first big meat consignment in vacuum skin tray packaging to Hong Kong.

A Timaru wool-broker has been elected the youngest-ever president of the Canterbury A&P Association.

New Zealand needs to take a multi-pronged approach to dealing with the perceived threat of plant-based food substitutes.

Scientists say although the new rabbit calicivirus is working as expected, farmers are not seeing the knockdown they may have hoped for.