New Zealand's potential as a maple syrup or birch syrup producer is being tested by researchers at the University of Canterbury. A trial plantation has been... Read More

New Zealand's avocado industry value eclipsed $227m in the 2020-21 season, with $167m delivered by avocado exports and $60m in sales in the New Zealand market. "This... Read More

About 10,000 foreign workers on temporary visas are being allowed to stay in the country for another six months to help ease labour shortages while the border... Read More

Rural contractor Bill Darbyshire has always had an interest in machinery, and is a motor mechanic by trade. 'I grew up on a Wanganui dairy farm, and the first... Read More

To join the Te Puke Young Farmers club you do have to be fairly young - well, no more than 30 - but you don't have to be an actual farmer and you don't have to... Read More

A small kiwi company is using new technology to change the face of conservation and pest control throughout the country. Envico Technologies primarily develop... Read More

A 61-year-old dairy farmer has been fined $17,500 and warned that he could be disqualified from farming if he appears on animal welfare charges again. Rodney... Read More

Farmers will soon be able to get advanced warning of where ash might fall following a volcanic eruption. GNS Science, MetService and the Earthquake Commission... Read More

Competitors will be going head-to-head once again in the pinnacle events of New Zealand agriculture at the Fieldays this month. At this year's event, Fieldays... Read More

With winter weather on the horizon, Bay of Plenty Regional Council Toi Moana is reminding rural landowners of their responsibility to protect the region's stopbanks. ... Read More

A woman has been disqualified from owning horses for a year, sentenced to 100 hours community work, and ordered to pay vet fees of $498.00 after her horse, an... Read More

Farmers scouring the Waikato for accommodation ahead of what could be the biggest event in Fieldays history are contending with half the region's beds already... Read More