Making waterway planting compulsory on farms nationwide would be totally impractical, says North Canterbury native plant nurseryman and environmental consultant Jamie McFadden. 

Farmers should not be having nightmares about Mycoplasma bovis, says a technical expert.

After fifteen years of planning and red tape, a controversial large dairy conversion in the Mackenzie Basin is expected to be up and running next season, despite environmentalists’ ongoing opposition.

The Dill family of Kaipara Flats, north of Auckland, has won the 2018 Auckland Ballance Farm Environment Awards.

Keeping costs down is a priority for organisers of the Northland Field Days.

Westland Milk Products is completely back to full collection and production at its Hokitika factory after the devastation caused by ex-cyclone Fehi. 

Waihi farm owners Jean and David Mansfield like running their business their way.

Welshy contracting is well-known in the South Canterbury region, for 16 years offering no-nonsense earthmoving, site clearance, trenching, directional drilling, vacuum excavation and fencing.

Irrigators say they are looking forward to continuing to develop a constructive and productive working relationship with the new government.

Despite challenges from competing land use and a drop in the national deer herd, the industry is well positioned to fulfil New Zealand’s goal to provide high quality protein products to the world’s best-heeled consumers.