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The inability to bring in experienced overseas workers is one of the big difficulties for the potato industry as it heads into the next growing season amid COVID-19.

The COVID-19 crisis appears to have sparked a renewed interest in the healing properties of honey.

An East-West Covid split is dictating global meat returns for New Zealand farmers.

Falling land and livestock prices have hit the state-owned farmer Landcorp – known as Pāmu – in the financial year to 30 June.

Global markets and consumers around the world are making large shifts on how they maintain food security, purchase food and the attributes of the products they are seeking.

An airline pilot may soon be landing in a paddock near you, driving a harvester.

OPINION: No one can doubt the great job that Dr Ashley Bloomfield has done in protecting New Zealanders from COVID-19.

Industry groups have been lobbying for independent greengrocers, butchers and bakers to be allowed to operate under COVID-19 Alert Level 3.

Agricultural contractors are still struggling to fill the huge hole of workers it needs, despite recruiting 300 locals to the industry.

Farmers remain cautious and even wary – despite the sector having done reasonably well during the COVID-19 pandemic – according to the latest rural report from the BNZ.