The man who led the Fifty Shades of Green campaign is now going to be advocating for the one shade of blue – the National Party.

With the drought reaching a crisis level in Central Hawkes Bay with supplementary feed almost non-existent, farmers in the Wairarapa have answered the call for help.

The lasting effects of the drought are seen by Rural Contractors NZ board members as a bigger challenge for contractors and farmers than COVID-19.

A man who has spent more than 40 years in the meat industry says the best thing that happened to the industry in NZ was the UK joining the European Union in 1973.

A New Zealand wine company is planting more than 150,000 native trees and plants in and around its Martinborough vineyards, with 100,000 plants to go in this winter alone.

Farmers on the lower east coast of the North Island have welcomed heavy rains, which have fallen in the last week.

The 2020 Hawkes Bay/Wairarapa Dairy Industry Awards Share Farmer of the Year winners Nick and Rose Bertram are no strangers to success.

Organisers of the NZ Dairy Industry Awards have called off the rest of regional award dinners and the national finals.

Good crowds are expected for the well-established 27th Central Districts field days being held at the Manfeild racetrack, at Feilding, from March 19 to 21.

Once-a-day (OAD) milking was up for discussion at a recent Small Milk and Supply Herds (SMASH) field day at Massey University.