Kiwifruit industry leader Peter McBride has won horticulture’s premier award, the Bledisloe Cup, at this year’s Horticulture Conference.

Thousands of Kiwi drone and e-bike owners are being warned to check their insurance policies.

The wool industry has to be restructured; there is no other way, says prominent grower Derrick Millton.

An absolute nonsense, unnecessary, premature, puzzling, and is our so-called friend the UK doing the dirty on us?

The Meat Industry Association (MIA) says the latest tariff-rate quota (TRQ) proposal from Britain and the EU is absolute nonsense, is unnecessary and is premature. 

First, there was the Forrest GrapeRide, then there was the Saint Clair Vineyard Half Marathon and the Martinborough Round the Vines Run (every March). Now there is the Pegasus Bay Vine Run, launched in late January this year. 

Fonterra’s new chairman John Monaghan is a safe pair of hands for the job, says Federated Farmers Waikato president Andrew McGiven.

The UTV is a workhorse on many rural properties, but the asking prices -- $15,000 to $30,000 -- cause some farmers to baulk. So imported Japanese micro-trucks or conversions of more mainstream vehicles are gaining ground.

Carrying people to inaccessible parts of a property has always been a challenge, but it must be done safely and by the rules.

Dairy farmers and lifestyle farmers rearing calves must do all their paperwork, says OSPRI.