Keeping a watch on dairy farms
OPINION: Dairy farmers are under increasing pressure to safeguard their livestock, equipment and operations from a range of security threats.
Anti-dairying and academic Mike Joy is taking his campaign further.
His book Pollution inheritance - New Zealand's Freshwater Crisis recently landed on our desk.
The publisher, BWB Texts, boasts that it publishes "short books on big subjects from great New Zealand writers".
The book claims intensive dairying has degraded our freshwater rivers and lakes and it issues a call to arms to New Zealanders.
We ask, what about the urban wastewater systems daily pumping into waterways?
Northlanders scooped the pool at this year's prestigious Ahuwhenua Trophy Awards - winning both the main competition and the young Maori farmer award.
Red meat farmers are urging the Government to act on the growing number of whole sheep and beef farm sales for conversion to forestry, particularly carbon farming.
The days of rising on-farm inflation and subdued farmgate prices are coming to an end for farmers, helping lift confidence.
A blockbuster year and an exciting performance: that's how Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) Director General, Ray Smith is describing the massive upsurge in the fortunes of the primary sector exports for the year ended June 2025.
Federated Farmers president Wayne Langford says the 2025 Fieldays has been one of more positive he has attended.
A fundraiser dinner held in conjunction with Fieldays raised over $300,000 for the Rural Support Trust.