COMMENT: Think of your least favourite ministry then multiply it by a thousand. That's roughly how much I despise the Ministry for Primary Industries.

The chairman of the Bay of Plenty Regional Council Doug Leeder explains that the water quality issue is a problem everybody needs to get their heads around, whether they live in a rural or urban environment. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Farming entrepreneur Colin Harvey has put his 6,639-hectare Lake McKay Station up for sale.

Tourism earnings have soared to edge out dairy as New Zealand's top export earner for the first time since 2010.

Farmers in the Netherlands have little appetite for state support, despite low prices.

Don Carson is a professional spin doctor of long-standing in agriculture who comments on the PR spin in the press release from Meat Industry Excellence (MIE) about going into recess.

Fed Farmers Dairy Chair Andrew Hoggard is in Holland at the World Dairy Summit. He found he had to correct the European perception of kiwi farming.

Dom takes a trip down memory lane and gives us the history of radio which started on a farm!

Lincoln University has repaid $1.5m after it was found it did not teach for as many hours as it was funded for.

It used to be the thing of the old Western movies where the rancher combating rustlers stealing his stock. But similar scenarios are

In this week's From the Lip - Jamie answers an ill-informed critic who labels him left-wing. Don't they know he's apolitical?

Chanelle Purser and Chelsea Millar talk social media and why it's important for farmers to tell their stories.

PGG Wrightson expects operating earnings to decline this year, snapping three years of growth.

Farmers in the Wairarapa are breaking new ground as they get under way with planting alternatives to their preferred pea crop. The

The Minister of Finance reviews the results of Jamie's unscientific pub poll on what he should do with his $1.8 billion surplus.

OPINION: The country's reliance on its rural sector for the export income that sustains our standard of living was re-emphasised in

Police are investigating the discovery of a hidden camera at a Waikato dairy farm.

Bad weather takes its toll on New Zealand milk production at a time when it should be hitting a seasonal peak.

The key change to the governance model will enable farmers to directly nominate their own choice for selection to the board.

Teen flown to hospital after quadbike hits a sheep.

Craig "Wiggy" Wiggins alerts The Country Early Edition's Dom George to the perils of the internet.

Are we losing our regional towns? Dom George investigates rural depopulation.

The decline is the first in five auctions.

Feral sheep are under threat but Wimbledon farmer Brian Hales is showcasing what these exotic breeds have to offer. Made with funding from NZ on Air

The Kiwi cat that thinks it is a sheep has gone global.

It's all very well to talk about the recent dairy upswing but what about some good news for sheep farmers?

Greenpeace has erected anti-Ruataniwha dam billboards around Hawke's Bay this week in a bid to "send the message that these elections

Federated Farmers president William Rolleston has stepped in as acting president of the World Farmers' Organisation.

Tatua Co-op dairy payout drops to $6.30 a kg, but is still well ahead of its larger competitors like Fonterra.

Dom George looks at both sides of the rural/urban story to try and see if everyone can play nice.