Robust talk about the environment will be on the agenda at the East Coast Farming Expo, whose organisers will shine a light on this hotly debated aspect of farming. 

Another Autumn season is fading away with all the challenges of maintaining good staff mostly behind us. Yet Rural Contractors NZ is again having to prove its case for importing some of the people we need to drive our machinery in the coming spring.

Greenpeace has suggested that meat and dairy product consumption should be reduced to 16kg and 33 kg per person per year, respectively. 

The National Fieldays is calling innovators: join our 50th celebrations and bring your new gadgets along.

A new survey of the threats posed by alternative proteins to New Zealand’s red meat farmers also shows a wealth of opportunities, says Beef + Lamb New Zealand (BLNZ).

Southland sheep and beef farmer Andrew Morrison steps into the Beef + Lamb NZ chairmanship as the levy-funded organisation implements a revised strategy.

The sheep and beef sector may be closer to carbon neutral status than it realises, says James Parsons in his final speech as chairman of Beef + Lamb NZ.

Farmers widely support the decision to cull 22 more herds infected with Mycoplasma bovis. 

‘It was the only way forward,’ says the Minister of Agriculture, Damien O’Connor, on the decision to slaughter more than 22,000 cows with M. bovis. 

Outgoing Fonterra chief executive Theo Spierings has hinted his next job may not be high profile.