OPINION: Your old mate reckons townie Brooke van Velden, the Minister of Workplace (or is it Woke Place) Relations is now showing how underemployed she is as a minister by initiating an investigation into whether young children should be banned from collecting eggs on farms and feeding animals.

OPINION: The sudden departure of Jim Ward, manager of Molesworth Station for 24 years, highlighted some major dysfunction in the way conservation estate is managed in this country - the biggest problem, as the Hound sees it, being idealogues who harp on about "taonga" and use all means possible to block sensible commercial operations on conservation land.

Former chief executive of New Zealand Young Farmers, Lynda Coppersmith is now CRV’s new sales and marketing manager.

OPINION: Nothing it seems can be done in the short term to get Donald Trump to change his mind about removing the unfair 15% tariffs that he’s imposed on New Zealand exports to the US.

A charity that connects young people with farmers for two years of on-farm training is reporting 150 student applications for its 2026 intake.

The Government has appointed three new members to the board of state farmer Landcorp Farming Ltd, trading as Pāmu.

Hawke's Bay's loss is Canterbury's gain with the opening of a new state-of-the-art soil testing laboratory for the Ravensdown subsidiary ARL (Analytical Research Laboratories) at Rolleston.

The Taranaki region is enjoying one of the highest gross domestic product (GDP) per capita figures in New Zealand, thanks to high farmgate dairy prices.

New Zealand's red meat processing and exporting sector has welcomed the government's announcement of new work visas.

Fertiliser co-operative Ravensdown is working on delivering a rebate for its farmer shareholders next year - the first in four years.