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Researchers fear effects of milk from hemp-fed cows
Concern over use of cannabis-based feeds in countries where it has been legalised.
Canterbury A&P Show a ‘huge success’ after 115,000 turn out
Numbers exceeded expectations despite the cooler temperatures.
Fieldays Innovation Award panel selects 65 finalists
Finalists were chosen across three categories: Prototype, Early-stage and Growth and Scale
Fieldays health and wellbeing hub to triple in size
Due to demand, the Fieldays society increased the size of the health hub at the event.
Milk Wars: Dairy farmer takes Fonterra back to court over milk collection
Philip Woolley was dumping thousands of litres of milk daily while under a court order.
'Massive concern': Farm near Napier bought by Austrian company for forestry conversion
Overseas Investment Office gives approval for the purchase near Puketapu.
Lone Ranger: Farmer appeals against conviction after horse killed on highway saying it ‘wasn’t a crime’
Farmer Luke King says the police and justice systems have been against him on all fronts.
Rockit apples branching out to South Island
Hastings is Rockit's home and that won't change.
'Embarrassing': Groundswell protest crowd size criticised
Almost 60 convoys were planned around NZ to protest against farm emissions pricing plan.
How a National MP went to war for her son - and how it cost her her job
Email that cost MP her portfolio came from inside the agency she wanted investigated.
Steven Joyce: Can't see the food for the trees
Govt's bid to trim emissions will hit Kiwi farmers — but won't reduce climate change.
Horizons helping farmers to understand changing regulations
Farmers may not know the impact the reforms will have on them, a Horizons advisor says.
Groundswell to mount tractor protest to emissions plan
Groundswell NZ calls emissions plan an 'assault on food production and rural communities'.
Explainer: What's changed? Why the rural uproar over farm emissions pricing scheme
There are only two areas of major difference but they might well be chasms.
Claire Trevett: Pickle for National as emissions plan reaches farm gates
Will the farms tax end the hopes of political consensus on climate change?
Explained: How the Govt wants to price farm emissions
After decades of debate, farmers will be priced for emissions from 2025. How will it work?
'Rip the guts out': Fed farmers condemns Govt's rural emission plan
Govt says it is largely based on sector's own suggestions with some 'tweaks'.
The future of farming: How global crises are reshaping agriculture
Financial Times: Threat of climate change driving a return to pre-industrial methods.
Is Northland grown seaweed the key to cutting methane?
Cow burps create a large amount of our greenhouse gas emissions, can seaweed stop it?
Gloriavale wins milk battle - on condition no child labour used on farms
Milk giant stopped milk collection from farms after child labour allegations.
Problems loom as soggy ground delays crop planting in Bay
Sunny Hawke's Bay reputation takes a dive as soggy ground creates trouble.
Fieldays offers an inside look into the forestry and wood processing sector
The theme of "Wood – our low-carbon future" will feature at the Fieldays Forestry Hub.
'Like a bloody battlefield': Sheep killed in dog attack
The Queenstown farmer is putting out a warning to dog owners.
Roger Partridge: Productive land law ignores opportunity cost
Were economists involved in drafting National Policy Statement for Highly Productive Land?
Barbara Kuriger: Food and fibre has a strong future despite the challenges
Farmers and growers have made good progress towards NZ's environmental goal.
Fonterra cuts milk price forecast to $9.25/kg
Fonterra has cut its milk price forecast to a mid-point of $9.25/kg.
Exercising rural women's right to mental wellbeing
Happiness Editor Matt Heath talks to Kate Ivey.
Raw milk raids: Largest supplier in the country fined
Ironically, publicity of the raids actually increased Lindsay Farm's customer base.
How New Zealand's climate fight is threatening farmland
New York Times: Investors are rushing to buy up pastures and plant carbon-sucking trees.
Angry Dutch farmers vow to cause more protest chaos than ever
The govt sparked fury with plan to curb livestock numbers to meet climate change targets.
'Huge upfront payment': Kāinga Ora's $70m farm land grab trumped private sector offers
The housing agency failed to price risk in the land purchase.
Government and Ngāi Tahu to work together on regenerative farming project
A programme will compare regenerative farming practices to conventional methods.