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Alison Watters elected Fonterra director

Fonterra shareholders have elected Dr Alison Watters as a new director.

Concerned farmers ask where the waka is at?

Hills such as these where native vegetation and red meat protein production go hand-in-hand are at great risk of being swamped by a monoculture of pine trees.

OPINION: Eight weeks ago, a group of concerned farmers wrote an Open Letter in an attempt to draw attention to the serious risks that the He Waka Eke Noa partnership recommendations to government pose to the future of the extensive sheep, beef, deer and regenerative farms and rural communities.

The world is her oyster!

On show (left to right): Young Maori Farmer of the Year finalists Chloe Butcher-Herries, Rameka Eli Edwards, Aaron Hunt (judge) and Puhirere Te-Akainga Tamanui Tau interact with the crowd at the Hawke’s Bay A&P Show.

"It's a privilege and honour."

Fed up farmer quits!

Brett Heap was one of the country’s biggest suppliers of early season zucchini and had been farming for over 50 years, but has now put his farm on the market.

Two years ago, Brett Heap was one of the country’s biggest suppliers of early season zucchini.

Awards for wilding pine efforts

Wilding Pine control groups won big at the recent 2022 Biosecurity Awards.

The Whakatipu Wilding Control Group won the community award at the 2022 Biosecurity Awards.

Fine profit for NZ Merino

Chief executive John Brakenridge says it is a very pleasing result and shows NZM’s commitment to growth.

Christchurch-based New Zealand Merino Company is reporting its third consecutive record annual profit in its financial results for the year to the end of June.

Sweet deal for EU honey exports

Kiwi mānuka honey sales to the EU have risen dramatically in recent years reaching $60 million last year.

The impact of a new European Union free trade agreement removing a 17.3% tariff on NZ-sourced honey in July is translating into increasing sales volumes, according to one exporter.

Good and bad for rural in plan

HTRHN chair Fiona Bolden is disappointed that rural health only received one page of specialist attention in the 108 page document.

The Ministry of Health has recently released the Te Pae Tata/Interim Health Plan mapping out the health sector's work programme over the next two years.

Māori farmers upset at proposal

Te Tumu Paeroa chief executive Charlotte Severne says Māori want to help reduce agricultural emissions, but rural communities must thrive for this to happen.

In an unusual move, the Māori Trustee and chief executive of Te Tumu Paeroa Dr Charlotte Severne says she'll be making a submission on the Government's agricultural emissions proposals.

Wairoa uprising over farm emission plans

Wairoa mayor Craig Little describes the meeting turnout as the biggest crowd he’s ever seen at a public meeting in the town.

The battle lines are being drawn between the small, isolated northern Hawke's Bay farming town of Wairoa, pop. 8000, against the big guns of Jacinda Ardern and what they see as her anti-farming government and its plans to unfairly tax agricultural emissions. Peter Burke reports...