Nature has little regard for supply and demand equations, and there were abundant, high-quality crops for many around the country this harves. While the industry grapples with slowing markets, excess supply and uncertainty around trade barriers, Sophie Preece hears that vintage 2025 kicked off with perfect parcels of delicious fruit.

Divine table grapes that herald the start of a brand-new industry in Hawke’s Bay have been coming off vines in Maraekakaho.

Growing potatoes requires suitable ground, an experienced workforce and a substantial investment in plant and machinery.

Federated Farmers president Wayne Langford says the Government’s recently released emissions pricing plan is ‘tone-deaf’.

Power Farming has taken out the Supreme Site accolade at the 2023 Fieldays Site Awards.

OPINION: The Ministry for the Environment (MfE) recently released a report on the state of New Zealand freshwater (“Our Fresh Water 2023”).

Ngai Tukairangi Trust has orchard operations in four regions across the country.

Waikato's newest milk processing plant is on track to start operating in July next year.

It was third time lucky for Smaller Milk and Supply Herds (SMASH) in staging a field day in the Manawatu with previous attempts being thwarted by Covid. About thirty people turned up at the dairy farm of Aly and Ian Passey in the beautiful Pohangina Valley, about 20km north east of Palmerston North.

The rising cost of diesel on the Chatham Islands is threatening the profitability of the island's main economy of farming and fishing.