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New Zealand needs to make sure that it continues to focus on its own food security, according to HortNZ board member and blueberry grower Dermott Malley.

"Adding pastoral goats with suitable management is the production base to develop a niche in an existing market,” Garrick Batten claims.

A network of study sites on hill country farms around New Zealand is now providing a wealth of information and research to help guide farmers around pasture forage decisions.

Hill country farmers’ efforts to prevent soil loss through erosion are being increasingly scrutinised.

Sheep and beef farmers are increasingly finishing stock on hill country forage crops and pastures, with a resultant drop in erosion risk.

OPINION: Beware the snag in the incentivised pushing by central and local government to get hill country into trees.

An innate curiosity for 'why things happen' made Lincoln University PhD candidate Amy Whitley a natural fit for scientific research.

With winter approaching, Taranaki hill country farmers must remember the importance of soil stabilisation measures like poplar poles, and take action accordingly.

Farmers need to change their thinking about the value of spreading fertiliser on the hill country, an expert in the field claims.

Scientists at Massey University have confirmed what farmers have known for years: cows do not like to walk uphill.