James and Debbie Stewart of Dairylands in the Manawatū are no strangers to taking home the silverware.

Feeling forgotten and in a fragile space financially and mentally.

Northland Federated Farmers is calling on farmers to take action over Northland's District Council's proposed freshwater plan.

It's still taking some farmers around the Northern Hawke's Bay town of Wairoa twice as long to get to Gisborne or Wairoa because the bridge across the Te Reinga river is still not fixed.

The Rapid Relief Team (RRT) charity is urging farmers in the Wellsford area to sign up quickly for their share of hundreds of thousands of dollars of fencing materials.

In the light of a possible drought due to El Nino - particularly along the East Coast of the North Island - Beef + Lamb NZ is busy running workshops to help farmers in the region to cope with any eventuality.

Palmerston North is set to rumble with the power and excitement of rural sports this coming March, as Ford New Zealand takes pole position as the naming rights sponsor of the illustrious Ford New Zealand Rural Sports Awards.

On farm innovation and technology is something new career dairy farmers are looking for when applying for jobs.

A Hawke's Bay farming couple cut off after Cyclone Gabrielle are thankful to the people and the generosity that helped get them through.

Rural services trader PGG Wrightson is bracing for a challenging year ahead as commodity prices continue to slide.