The launch of a new tech start-up and social enterprise is set to provide a significant boost for New Zealand's sustainably sourced wool sales.

Commercial growers in the Horowhenua region in the lower North Island are facing significant crop losses as a result of persistent and devastating rains over the last two weeks.

OPINION: A mate from Aussie sent me a great story that had been in the press, again, over the ditch recently.

Gray and Marilyn Baldwin own 713ha south of Lichfield, near Putāruru.

Otago dairy farmers Paul and Kyllee Henton are firm believers in the idea that New Zealand farmers are innovators.

John Deere has announced that its JDLink system will be available to customers at no ongoing cost.

Every fence running at right angles to the river and some running parallel, have some degree of damage, says Mid Canterbury farmer and Fed Farmers national board member Chris Allen.

Massey University is leading the carge to train rural professionals to help farmers to produce Farm Environment Plans (FEPs). It is running a series of courses ranging from introductory through to an advanced course. Peter Burke caught up with the participants at the advanced course at Massey recently.

Pull the thread of family succession at Rippon, and you’ll find yourself at Wānaka Station in 1912, with its new owner Percy Sargood. Follow it even further, to 1895, and you’ll find the enterprising Dunedin merchant at a seminar given by viticulturist Romeo Bragato, perhaps seeding the idea of wine in the arid climes of Central Otago.

Hawke's Bay dairy farmer Rose Galloway rejects any suggestion that mastitis in cows isn't contagious. A trained nurse, Galloway and her family milk 550 cows near Norsewood and says mastitis is caused by pathogens entering the cow's udder through the teat canal and can pass onto other cows. She explains: