Farmers are questioning why the Government’s first ‘Wellbeing budget’ has left a critical gap in its commitment to conservation.

It's an early winter morning, dark and chilly, but Northland dairy farmer Jane Hutchings couldn’t be happier.  

West Coast farmers have spent at least $8 million on conservation efforts to improve the water quality of Lake Brunner.

A new study is showing dairy and conservation sites can co-exist, and its findings are contributing to an ongoing project restoring natural biodiversity into a dairy farming environment.

Retiring land as a wetland or conservation area returns more than it costs, according to Hikurangi dairy farmer Steve Brown.