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Crafar owner searching for new deals
Chinese billionaire Jiang Zhaobai, who now owns the Crafar dairy farming empire, is back in New Zealand forging a relationship with Maori.
Ben Dalton: Maori land bursting with farm potential
Primary industries generate over 70 per cent of New Zealand's merchandise exports.
Life on the farm: high pay, low costs
The average farming wage is higher than for the country as a whole and living costs in rural areas are lower.
Miraka - it's Maori for milk
Maori-controlled, with a Vietnamese connection, one of the country's newest dairy companies does things a little bit differently from the big boys, discovers Jamie Gray.
Live Chat replay: Fed Farmers Bruce Wills
Join us at noon today for a live chat with Federated Farmers president Bruce Wills. You can send in your questions now.
Farms prices tipped to hold steady
New data out shortly could show if the severe drought is having an effect on farm sales but one expert believes farmers' general spending will be hit harder than volumes or prices of property deals.
Dairying leads export price surge
Led by dairy products, prices for export commodities surged last month - and this time the rise in world prices was not eaten up by a higher exchange rate.
Big dry's ravages getting worse
Farmers throughout the North Island continue to hope for rain as the big dry bites hard, making conditions for some worse than the 2008 drought.
Forecasters blow hot and cold
Two professional weather forecasters got close to predicting the record hot, dry summer, but a "motivational astrologer" was adrift.
Noel Hewlett: Water catchment may ease pressure in a dry spell
That wonderful quote in our English history should be changed in New Zealand to: 'Water, water everywhere and not a drop is saved!'
Climate scientist's grim warning
Farmers need to adapt for a drier future as events like the 'once-in-a-lifetime' drought become closer to the norm.
Drought's deadly farm toll
Slaughterman Kent Sambells' workload was "hectic" last week as Waikato farmers called him in to destroy ailing cattle and take them away for processing into pet food.
Farmers' profits forecast to halve
Sheep and beef farm profits are predicted to halve this season, as the full impact of current lamb prices and drought kick in, Beef and Lamb New Zealand says.
Key dons Colombian hat for silly photo
After two long days without a single silly photo on his Latin American trade tour, Prime Minister John Key has broken the drought by donning a vueltiao.
Fertiliser aid dropped after milk tests
An important fertiliser aid has been culled from farmers' chemical shopping lists after it turned up in milk products destined for human consumption.
Crafar Farms animal abuse trial postponed
A trial involving five parties linked to the running of Crafar Farms who face hundreds of charges between them of animal abuse has been postponed.
Bruce Wills: Farmers passionate about water and the future
As 2012 draws to a close there is no such thing as the "good old days" when it comes to water use in town or country.
Fonterra share scheme wins seal of approval
Fonterra's Trading Among Farmers (TAF) share trading scheme received its final, albeit retrospective, seal of approval at the annual meeting yesterday.