Tauranga’s Riding for the Disabled facility is set to reopen later this month with classes completely booked out. Tauranga RDA manager Elisha... Read More

Two months since New Zealand moved out of its Covid-19 Level 4 lockdown, marshalling areas at ports are busy again with export cargoes arriving from... Read More

This edition I want to raise two topics. First, let’s talk about managing water-stressed tress as there are a number of orchards suffering from... Read More

Free kiwifruit industry training courses are now on offer across the Bay of Plenty, after starting on June 22. The Government announced last month that... Read More

Beef + Lamb New Zealand says the emissions trading reform legislation, passed mid-June, incentivises productive farmland being converted to pines planted... Read More

With 10 tractors, a bulldozer and a BSA Bandtom 1951 motorbike, Tauranga Vintage machinery club president Murray Wastney has quite the collection. “Tractors... Read More

When Covid-19 hit, around 75 Nuffield scholars from around the world were on Moreton Island, 40km off the coast of Brisbane, for a conference that would... Read More

At the front of Jeffie Botha’s 1ha hillside Apata property is her friendly Labrador, ‘Luna’, with a shiny coat of fur gleaming in the... Read More

As farmers head into a new season they have two new leaders steering their industry into the future. Federated Farmers’ new president is Manawatu... Read More

Alan Paterson traded a diesel mechanic career in Australia’s mines to work on his parents’ Kaharoa farm, north of Rotorua. His partner Michaela... Read More

Fonterra farmers producing sustainable, high quality milk will be eligible for a new payment, as Fonterra announces important changes to the way it pays... Read More

New Zealand’s avocado exporters say the Australian market is hungry for NZ fruit this coming season due to a below-par domestic season, and this... Read More

Primary industry sectors are welcoming a new fund for drought recovery, announced in early-May, but some say prevention is better than cure. And as such,... Read More

Strong international demand for New Zealand’s food, despite the global effects of COVID-19, could help provide a springboard to get more Kiwis... Read More

Hundreds of arable research trials were paused for five weeks during the nationwide COVID-19 Alert Level 4 lockdown, which began on March 25. And this... Read More