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The Government has announced funding for new research on the potential of regenerative farming practices to boost soil carbon in arable, vegetable and other crop growing systems.

A Hawke’s Bay farm is seeing great results by giving their cows a ‘stress-free’ environment.

Wattie’s says the latest tomato harvest season has seen some of the highest yielding tomato paddocks in the company’s 50-year history.

Around the Hawke's Bay region, the grass in the paddocks is looking greener as it recovers from two bad seasons of drought.

Hawke's Bay dairy farmer Ivan Knauf says he's thrilled to be able to fence a significant 90-hectare wetland surrounded by native bush on his farm.

Farmers in Hawke's Bay have now experienced two successive years of bad droughts, which has stretched their farm management skills to the limit. Watching this and working with farmers to mitigate the problems are two experienced AgFirst farm consultants based in Hastings - Lochie MacGillivray and Phil Tither. They talked with reporter Peter Burke about what they have seen and what works best.

“It's been an excellent harvest for us in Hawke’s Bay,” says Te Awa winemaker Richard Painter, at Villa Maria’s winery on the Gimblett Gravels.

Drought hit Mike and Peter Connor’s farms badly and this year their hill properties are parched again.

Even the weeds won't grow.

Driving through Hawke's Bay, the visible effects of the drought are mixed.