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The Government has set a target to increase the value of New Zealand's food sector exports from $25 billion to $60b, meaning there will be an additional 50,000 jobs in the primary sector by 2025.

It's almost too good to be true. A report on the state of the New Zealand environment that is honest, factual and not littered with references to the damage farmers alone are doing to land and water.

Surprise surprise, the Trans-Pacific Partnership has at last been concluded and no babies have been murdered.

Recently I received a book written by Michael and Judith Bassett, that outlines the history of the Babich family's 100 years within the New Zealand wine industry.

This season threw up a big challenge for dairy farmers in the low payout, but all hoped the weather might have been kind.

It seems that farmer/shareholder ownership of primary sector entities is almost worshipped in some quarters.

Taranaki farmers are bouncing back from the devastating floods two months ago.

It's a fallacy that the farming community need not worry about health and safety because of changes to the Health and Safety Reform Bill.

The dairy industry’s ongoing volatility coupled with a cold wet winter in many parts of the country has highlighted the real value of New Zealand’s pasture based system.

It's not our preference to kick someone when they are down. But Fonterra’s appearance at Tauranga District Court relating to six illegal wastewater discharges at its Edgecumbe plant leaves us little choice.