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.

Regional Economic Development Minister Shane Jones enjoyed a friendly chat with the Irish Ambassador Breandan O Caollai at Fieldays, the pair renewing their friendship made at this year’s Waitangi Day.

Fonterra farmers have reminded the outspoken Regional Development Minister Shane Jones that the co-op is not a state-owned enterprise.