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The prestigious Land Rover Burghley Horse Trial is about to begin in Lincolnshire, in England, and New Zealand fingers are crossed top eventer Caroline Powell and trusty steed, Lenamore, can keep the top title they won there last year. Can they make it two in row?

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The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation, or FAO, is warning that the bird flu virus is spreading again and some strains have mutated and are immune to known vaccinations.

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Media reports in Australia that imply imported New Zealand apples have made their way to over the ditch with leaf matter and insects are utterly ridiculous says New Zealand Pipfruit chief executive Peter Beaven.

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Listening to, and acting upon sound advice, are two of the main reasons dairy farmers in the lower North Island are calling themselves heroes.

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The Green Party is urging the kiwifruit industry to abandon plans to begin spraying a powerful antibiotic on its vines later this week. 

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In just a few months the tomato potato psyllid pest wiped out a fifth of the value the country’s potato industry’s farm gate value – and now New Zealand potato growers say they need urgent help if they are to survive.

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New Zealand’s wine industry held its biggest annual grape growing and wine sector conference last week at the Ellerslie Convention Centre in Auckland. Wine lovers, grape growers and trade exhibitionists flocked to the Romeo Bragato Conference over three days, to network and discuss how to squeeze a profit from an industry that has had its challenges these past few years. Emma Jones has more...

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Federated Farmers past president, Don Nicolson, has been ranked fourth on the Act Party list. And Mr Nicolson, a Southland sheep and beef farmer, says his high placing on the party list is an indication that Act is indeed a pro-farmers’ party.

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Beekeepers in the Bay of Plenty are anxiously watching the kiwifruit industry to see whether it will approve a powerful antibiotic, streptomycin, for use in the battle against PSA-v.

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While kiwifruit growers outside of the Bay of Plenty region may be celebrating the news that they don’t in fact have PSA – for those in the Bay of Plenty the nightmare continues.

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