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Regulators are being urged to work with and not against farmers.

Te Hera Estate Vineyard is small by anyone’s standards and its output is destined to become even smaller this year after a spring frost wiped out approximately half of its potential grapes for the 2019 vintage.

Farmers across the top of the South Island are pinning their hopes on forecast rain to ease a drought some say is shaping up to be the worst since 2001.

Reports from many regions say the green grass seen on farms in January has now turned brown.

Farmers across the top of the South Island are pinning their hopes on forecast rain to ease a drought some say is shaping up as the worst since 2001.

Damaging frosts typically occur after a cold, cloudy day followed by a still night with clear skies. 

Cropping farmers have had to put up with an unusually wet start to summer.

2018 has tied for the second hottest year on record, according to NIWA's annual climate summary released today.

When 300mm of rain fell in four hours and blew out a year’s worth of environmental mitigation work, Steve Borland admits “it just about broke me”.

Water storage is more important than ever as climate change causes more severe drought forecasts.