A new report shows farm employers across the dairy, sheep and beef, and arable sectors have continued to invest strongly in one of their greatest assets – their staff.

Dairy

Hopes of NZ sheepmeat prices picking up anytime soon in the country's key export market of China looks highly unlikely.

Lack of progress in repairing the stretch of State Highway 2 between Wairoa and Napier is angering Wairoa Mayor Craig Little.

Free workshops are being offered around the country to help farmers take more ownership of their farm business finances.

An initial trial of an app, funded by Beef + Lamb New Zealand, has demonstrated significant results in reducing drench inputs during a small-scale study.

A change of government and the possibility of better markets prices has lifted farmer confidence, but it still remains fragile.

OPINION: When Myles Allen, a professor of geosystem science at the University of Oxford, talks, I always suggest it’s worth a listen – particularly when he shares information that can help improve sustainability in the cattle sector.

What was once, and to a degree still is, the food bowl of the lower North Island has now almost become another suburb of Wellington - 100km away.

Farmgate dairy and beef prices are improving but lamb prices remain weak, according to the latest BNZ Rural Wrap.