A buoyant local economy should help make this year’s Southern Field Days a big success, says event chairman Logan Evans.

A Chinese company financing a multi million-dollar sheep milk venture near Taupo plans to build processing plants in other regions.

Home-grown animal health company Farm Medix Ltd has again had the nod for its innovative products.

Air NZ Wine Awards Chief Judge Warren Gibson reports on this year's fantastic awards.

Benchmarking themselves against other farmers was a big plus in entering the Ballance Farm Environment Awards, say Wairarapa farmers Mike and Liz McCreary.

Young Grower of the Year Erin Atkinson (30) says the industry is at a critical time of change with many opportunities for innovations and inventions.

Bright green peanut butter baits are being laid in an area of the Mackenzie District for the third year running to try to suppress an isolated population of wallabies adjacent to the Mount Cook National Park.

A ground-breaking prototype methane recovery system on a 950 cow farm in Southland has demonstrated for the first time the commercial viability of this technology in a cool climate.

Labour Party leader Jacinda Ardern says after National came into power it shelved the Environment Court judge David Sheppard’s national policy statement (NPS) initiated by the last Labour government.

With 62,000 New Zealanders living and working rurally, their communities are the backbone of the economy, but they are poorly supported healthwise.