The campaign to eradicate cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis could soon be handed over to Ospri.

It was mushrooms popping up on the lawn during the Covid-19 lockdowns that led Colin Cambier of Wainui, north of Auckland, to what he hopes will become a thriving business in exotic culinary mushrooms.

OPINION: Eight weeks ago, a group of concerned farmers wrote an Open Letter in an attempt to draw attention to the serious risks that the He Waka Eke Noa partnership recommendations to government pose to the future of the extensive sheep, beef, deer and regenerative farms and rural communities.

With our own National Fieldays only few weeks away, Rural News took the opportunity to take a trip overseas – as a guest of Enterprise Ireland, which invited 190 guests from 19 countries – to look at Ireland’s own national event, locally known as The Ploughing.

Peter McNab has been involved with TB Free for more than 30 years and was a key driver and supporter of the programme through the times when bovine TB was present in many herds in Otago. After 33 years on the Otago OSPRI Committee he has stepped down. Here is his story.

John Perrin Scholarship recipients Ashleigh van Uffelen, Palmerston North, and Abbey Dowd, South Waikato, are proof that you don't need to be born and bred on a farm to have a passion for the industry and dreams of shaping its future.

The first batch of candidates for Fonterra's board election has been announced.

A programme providing school leavers with a viable career option in agriculture has seen student numbers soar in recent years.

Beef+Lamb New Zealand chair Andrew Morrison says his organisation understands farmers' concerns about the He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN) recommended option.

A group of sheep and beef farmers have penned an open letter to Beef+Lamb NZ directors demanding they make changes to the current He Waka Eke Noa (HWEN) recommendations for mitigating agricultural emissions or face a vote of no confidence.