While there is a degree of optimism among Hawke's Bay apple growers, it somewhat masks a real and uncertain fear about the future.

With increasing and rising financial challenges, a well-balanced combination of carrot and stick will be needed to help dairy companies reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

Weather events like Cyclone Gabrielle that hit over one year ago have landed two of the country's biggest fruit and vegetable traders with massive trading losses.

The family behind Te Ranga farms have won the regional supreme award at the Bay of Plenty Ballance Farm Environment Awards.

Time is running out for farmers to have their say on funding two important primary sector programmes.

Simon and Josi Beamish and Hugo & Pip Beamish of Awapai have been announced as the regional supreme winners at the East Coast Ballance Farm Environment Awards in Gisborne this week.

A worsening drought in the northern South Island has seen the newly built Waimea Community Dam – in the hills behind Nelson – is doing what it was designed to do for the first time.

The finalists in this year’s Ahuwhenua Trophy competition to select the top Māori dairy farm in the country are now busy planning and organising field days at their respective properties.

While confident that the apiculture sector can meet its target of doubling honey exports by 2030, chair of ApicultureNZ, Nathan Guy, says it will be challenging.

Farmers round the country are calling on the Government to rein in councils that are trying to push through district plans and other planning processes despite reforms coming to the Resource Management Act (RMA).