Comment: Covid 19 adds extra stress to busy calving season
Comment: Calving is an intense time on farms in terms of workload and skills required.
Comment: Calving is an intense time on farms in terms of workload and skills required.
Comment: It's time for the Govt to support truck drivers working during lockdown.
Comment: NZ needs to consider some big ideas if we are to recover from Covid-19.
We say: Winter is coming, not just weather-wise, and farmers are feeling it too.
Comment: We need to take the time to understand the challenges others in the sector face.
Comment: Supply chain links vital to moving essential supplies must be allowed to work.
Farming and shearing are both on MPI's list of essential services.
Comment: If you need help, please ask someone. Don't be too proud.
Comment: With longer nights and no one around, conditions are prime for rural crimes.
Comment: The Country host is determined to accentuate the positive in these trying times.
Comment: Sticking in our own bubble has never been as important as it is now.
Comment: To beat Covid-19 those working on the land must do their bit on-farm and off.
The kiwifruit industry needs more workers and is reaching out to those who have lost jobs.
Comment: Feds Vice President Andrew Hoggard writes on the benefits of water storage.
Their actions could affect us all.
Comment: Water is one of our nation's critical strategic assets.
Four of our six whitebait species are categorised as threatened or at risk of extinction.
Comment: Jamie Mackay got more adventure than he bargained for on the Hollyford Track.
Comment: Without NZ farmers, food would be more even expensive than it already is.
COMMENT: Why are we still managing and governing water resources at regional level?
Should the regional council change its name?
It's great to be a Kiwi after the Tooth Fairy has waved her wand in the Year of Delivery.
To keep out traffic noise, air conditioning was installed.
Sealing unsealed roads not part of Government infrastructure spend-up, why is that?
So, right at this moment, I'm feeling pretty proud of myself
Comment: Nobody, least of all farmers, wants animals to be hungry. But is grass-only best?
Comment: John Nicholson looks at the history of the Aviation Charitable Trust Fund.
Comment: Doing the control work on wilding pines now is an investment in the future.
Whitebaiting rules are set to change in a bid to save the species, but it is enough?