Fonterra says there’s an urgent need to improve return on capital invested in the co-op by farmers and unit holders.

African swine fever’s huge impact on China’s pork production this year will be a huge opportunity for New Zealand’s meat industry.

The health of rural business people – including farmers, orchardists and health facilities — is being affected because they cannot get sufficient good staff and must work longer hours to compensate.

The kiwifruit variety SunGold is this season set to overtake the traditional green Haywards variety for the first time.

Anti-farming lobby Greenpeace has been ordered to take down billboards it had erected around the country accusing fertiliser companies Ballance and Ravensdown of polluting rivers.

Wait and see is the watchword on the possibility of a labour shortage in the kiwifruit harvest which began last week in Gisborne and western Bay of Plenty.

The drought formally declared in the northern regions of the South Island is now extended into Marlborough, Buller and Nelson.

Brexit is a messy situation and how it will end is not clear, says Rabobank’s global strategist for animal protein Justin Sherrard.

Waikato dairy farmer Craig Brown's Ubco all-electric bike is making him big savings on fuel and maintenance.

The new Kuhn Performer 3000, with a 3m working width, extends the existing Performer 4, 5, 6 and 7m tine/disc deep cultivator range that will cut, mix, loosen soil and consolidation it in one pass.

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