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

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

Our West Coast cow cocky comments on the Westland Milk Products forecast payout.

Shareholders have approved the second stage of a major South Canterbury irrigation scheme.

Westland Milk has confirmed its final payout to suppliers will be well below break-even and Fonterra's payout.

People who grow up on farms are less likely to suffer allergies in later life, a new study suggests. Women who grew up on farms

A Balclutha man who stabbed a sheep to death told the farmer he did it because he was hungry.

A slump in dairy and beef exports and higher than expected imports have left a $1.26 billion trade deficit...

The host of The Country, Jamie MacKay, promoted it as "The Great Water Quality Debate". He introduced the two protagonists using political

Irrigation New Zealand is slamming what they call publicity stunts by anti-farming lobby groups dead-set against the Ruataniwha Dam

We catch up with shearing royalty as the countdown continues to the World Shearing and Woolhandling Champs in Invercargill next February 9-11.

Mr Loe chats to The Country about the price of lamb for the coming season and the state of Springbok rugby.

Silver Fern Farms and Shanghai Maling have a few more nervous days to wait before they learn whether their joint venture proposal can go ahead.

Bayer's US$66 billion acquisition of Monsanto, creating the world's biggest supplier of seeds and agri-chemicals to farmers, will

Dom George wonders if Marcella Bakker is really looking for love or just looking for a TV show...

Jane Smith and Nadine Porter continue the water debate on The Country.

Enjoy that steak while you can.

The farmers ended up supplying Fonterra after it bought a failed Canterbury dairy business out of receivership.

Watch: A primary school north of Auckland has seen its roll surge in recent weeks with the opening of an unusual daycare.

Five-hundred cows stolen from a mid-Canterbury dairy farm were probably rustled over a period of months, police believe.

Report predicts agricultural robotics industry will grow by $7 billion in just six years

World dairy prices put on their third significant gain in a row at the latest GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) auction overnight.