Six Bay of Plenty and Waikato produce growers in the running for the 2014 Farmers Market New Zealand Summer Producers Awards have to wait to July to find out if... Read More

Stray voltage in dairy sheds can agitate cows and impact on their milk production and to help overcome this problem, Standards New Zealand has published a new handbook... Read More

A need in the kiwifruit industry for skilled workers is set to be met by a $150,000 funding injection from the government.New Zealand Kiwifruit Growers Inc president... Read More

Four white feet, a white tip to the tail and a white forehead are attributes which have qualified 36 Bay of Plenty friesian heifers for a trip to China.The young... Read More

Each year at Fieldays there's a stand-out give-away - something everyone seems to be carrying and everyone wants. Fieldays Buckets were the ‘new' carry bags... Read More

Rural Women NZ is urging bus companies to follow the lead of Ritchies Transport, which installed extra mirrors on its buses following the 2012 death of a five-year-old... Read More

Lloyd Franklin turns old car springs into knives - and if that sounds like some form of alchemy - in a way it is. For 27 years he's been using the ancient techniques... Read More

The wafting perfumes of more than 700 heritage rose varieties signify how much Mike Philo's late wife Marie loved her Ongare Point garden.But despite admitting he... Read More

Entries in this year's Fieldays Ag Art Wear Awards are dramatic, stunning, innovative and only just wearable. Each year designers find yet more interesting ways... Read More

With three boys under the age of five, Stacey Lepper and Thomas Blackett are pretty busy - but increasingly they're sharing both farming and parenting roles.'The... Read More

All fired up to make his mark in the national motocross season, it looked like it was almost over just as it began for Tauranga's Ryan Metz.From finishing eighth... Read More

Central Plateau Dairy Industry Awards Sharemilker/Equity Farmer of the Year winners Kirsten and Donald Watson chose a radical career-change five years ago - and... Read More