Time is running out for creative people to express their interest in participating in this year's NZ Garden and Art Festival in November. The biennial festival covers... Read More

Trials are underway for a tuberculosis test in livestock with hopes it will prove not only more accurate, but also save money. Palmerston North company PolyBatics... Read More

Fonterra has escaped with only a formal warning for dumping 5 million litres of buttermilk on an Atiamuri farm in October last year. Instead of imposing fines, the... Read More

A complaint made by New Zealand Kiwifruit Growers Incorporated to the press council over rural publication Straight Furrow's reporting of New Zealand kiwifruit grower... Read More

Waikato company, Sundale Farms Limited, has been fined $25,400 over the death of a worker killed by a runaway remote controlled tractor. Gursharan Singh was on his... Read More

The first of this season's export kiwifruit has left the Port of Tauranga bound for Japan aboard MV Lapponian Reefer. The harvest began last week in Gisborne, Hawke's... Read More

An East Coast politician is calling a possible move to amalgamate the Bay of Plenty's district and regional councils as 'catastrophic” for the eastern part... Read More

A sheep dog is a farmer's best employee, says Graeme Brier of the King Country.'A good dog might cost up to $5000 to buy - but over its working life, if treated... Read More

Hamish Forbes and his team at Pondco has won another award celebrating their excellence - and this time it's a world first. These dairy farm effluent compliance... Read More

An important collection of early Maori and European artefacts collected by Katikati pioneer Sam Middlebrook is going on public display for the first time at the... Read More

A Bay of Plenty kiwifruit orchard has posted a top orchard gate return based on its production of Hayward green in the 2013 season. Owen St George, Matt Greenbank... Read More

The Te Puke Sheep Dog Trial Club ended a 54-year-old tradition for the district when it held its last trials on the MacDougall farm at Pukehina in March. A huntaway... Read More