GRAEME HODGES has won the 10th Hawke's Bay Young Fruit Grower 2014 competition, defeating eight other contenders from around the region.

THE RED meat and wool sector faces a challenge in training and retaining people with market and product-oriented skills as well as cultural and language capabilities, a new employment report says.

FEDERATED FARMERS is mourning the passing of former national president, Alistair Polson; he was aged 58.

DAIRY FARMERS, including sharemilkers, have turned out and given a record level of support for continuing investment in their annual milksolids levy to fund ongoing research and development, environmental work and other industry initiatives.

A WAIKATO dairy farmer and three key New Zealand agribusinesses are using high speed 4G data connectivity to see how it will enable them to achieve efficiency and innovation gains through the use of the latest mobile communications technology.

PARTICIPATION IN THE Agri-Women's Development Trust (AWDT) programmes and workshops will more than triple this year.

FEDERATED FARMERS will be addressing the big issues at their High Country Conference next week in Queenstown.

INTENSIVE ARABLE agriculture in South America still has some way to go to catch up to New Zealand, says a leading Canterbury farming couple.

FONTERRA AND NESTLÉ have realigned their 10-year old Dairy Partners Americas (DPA) 50/50 joint venture and signed binding agreements covering the revised scope of the alliance.

I AM a swing voter but a recentspeech by Labour finance spokesman David Parker had me shaking my head in disbelief.