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Claire Trevett: Relationships key to PM's travels

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.

David Hunt: Pressures of farming almost killed me

Success: Mussel man keeps on pushing

Rain good but more needed in Hawkes Bay

Greens hit out at milk contamination

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 dairy farms deal finally settled

Stock agent charged after illegally tagging cows

Cow died an 'agonising death'

Milk production soars 11.3pc

New Zealand's milk production leaped 11.3 per cent last season, the most productive on record.

Urban Maori granted farming opportunities

'Million-dollar rain' helps Hawke's Bay farms

"Million-dollar rain" was how Hawke's Bay Federated Farmers president Bruce Wills described yesterday's downpours which swept the region.

Fonterra completes five-farm 'hub' in China

Fonterra has signed an agreement to develop two more large-scale dairy farms in China.

Brian Gaynor: Agriculture debt an economic winner

Fonterra gets ready for big sell