It has become the lifeblood of the New Zealand wine industry, accounting for at least $1.1 billion of the total $1.5 billion worth of wine exports.

World Ploughing chairman Colin Millar, of Rotorua, says the winners of this year's NZ ploughing championships are in contention with the best in the world.

Tekapo farmer Martin Murray can claim the country's best fleece for 2016, having won the Royal Agricultural Society Golden Fleece competition on his third attempt.

RHANZ says it supports Government moves to give district health boards the responsibility for deciding whether to add fluoride to water.

The wool industry globally needs to more actively promote the fibre's attributes.

Judging is underway in the 2016 New Zealand Share Farmer of the Year competition.

An outbreak of facial eczema (FE) on the West Coast is driving home the need for FE-tolerant genetics, according to a farmer.

Duck shooters and landholders are being assured the new workplace safety laws will not mess with the shooting season that opens next week.

The new chancellor of Lincoln University impresses as practical and forward-thinking, the kind of man who gets things done.

Livestock farmers will never be able to satisfy "extremists" such as SAFE because they are opposed completely to animal farming, says NZPork chairman Ian Carter.