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The apple and pear crop is forecast to increase only modestly this year but it's expected to be top quality.

Setting tyre pressures correctly, even for a humble farm tractor, is important for reducing compaction, precluding shallow ruts in difficult conditions and cutting fuel consumption.

Analysis of the genome sequence has shown pears have some surprising differences to apple at the DNA level.

A new innovation means farmers can set up drafting of cows for the next milking from wherever they happen to be, and in the time it takes to send a text.

BUSINESS CAN'T get much tougher for Nelson apple growers, and if it does, many of the older ones will quit rather than burn their equity.

A company credited for revolutionising the apple industry by creating a market for fruit that used to be "mopped up as rubbish" has turned 50.