Keeping safe from rural crime in lockdown
Comment: With longer nights and no one around, conditions are prime for rural crimes.
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Covid 19 coronavirus: Embrace rather than persecute farmers
Comment: Farmers need to be left alone to focus on what we do best - farming.
Pulling together as a community while also staying apart
Comment: These are not "business" as usual times.
Coronavirus - Jamie Mackay: Why there must be a seachange (and I'll stop picking my nose)
Comment: The Country host is determined to accentuate the positive in these trying times.
Comment: A farmers' guide to staying connected in isolation
Comment: Sticking in our own bubble has never been as important as it is now.
Covid 19 coronavirus: It's essential that agriculture does its bit
Comment: To beat Covid-19 those working on the land must do their bit on-farm and off.
Kiwifruit industry reaches out to those who need jobs
The kiwifruit industry needs more workers and is reaching out to those who have lost jobs.
Comment: Water storage an investment in everyone's future
Comment: Feds Vice President Andrew Hoggard writes on the benefits of water storage.
Kiri Gillespie: Water hoggers need to heed Bay's water restrictions
Their actions could affect us all.
Todd Muller: Water will be the currency of the 21st century
Comment: Water is one of our nation's critical strategic assets.
Managing whitebait - a species in decline
Four of our six whitebait species are categorised as threatened or at risk of extinction.
Jamie Mackay: The Great Hollyford Walk 2020
Comment: Jamie Mackay got more adventure than he bargained for on the Hollyford Track.
Damien O'Connor: It's not easy but we are winning M. bovis fight
Comment: The impact on farmers and steps required to eradicate it cannot be understated.
Comment: Could Govt try to seize natural gas reserves?
Comment: Confiscating natural gas reserves would be an extremely risky move.
Dr Jacqueline Rowarth: Is food in NZ really that expensive?
Comment: Without NZ farmers, food would be more even expensive than it already is.
Time for a national strategy to manage our water
COMMENT: Why are we still managing and governing water resources at regional level?
A drought is coming and what are we doing about it?
Should the regional council change its name?
Frank Greenall: VR goggles for election MooTube
It's great to be a Kiwi after the Tooth Fairy has waved her wand in the Year of Delivery.
Wool exchange designed for 'function over form'
To keep out traffic noise, air conditioning was installed.
John Williamson: Neglect at your peril - the gravel road...
Sealing unsealed roads not part of Government infrastructure spend-up, why is that?
Wyn Drabble: Trying hard to net a decent crop
So, right at this moment, I'm feeling pretty proud of myself
Dr Jacqueline Rowarth: Is grass-only still feasible in NZ farming?
Comment: Nobody, least of all farmers, wants animals to be hungry. But is grass-only best?
Comment: Agricultural aviators showed early foresight
Comment: John Nicholson looks at the history of the Aviation Charitable Trust Fund.
Comment: War on wilding pines deserves more funding
Comment: Doing the control work on wilding pines now is an investment in the future.
Are whitebait doomed or will new rules save them?
Whitebaiting rules are set to change in a bid to save the species, but it is enough?
Comment: Robotic technology is revolutionising farming
Comment: Advancements in robotic technology changing the face of farming for the better.
Pattrick Smellie: Fish farm objections smell like seabed mining
Huge difference between salmon farm and undersea mining op, but parallels are emerging.
Rural ramblings with Julie Paton: Heat, pests and the neighbour's smoke
Brown hills, flies, ferrets and bushfire smoke test our resilience.
Dr Jacqueline Rowarth: The moral dilemma facing vegans
Comment: Animal welfare or climate change? Dr Rowarth and Dr Coles investigate.
Game fishing holds a place in NZ culture
Catching a marlin doesn't come around very often and should be celebrated.
Ian McKelvie: Co-operation needed for NZ's fishing future
Comment: Commercial and recreational sectors can work together for a sustainable industry.
Dr Jacqueline Rowarth: The problem with Veganuary
Comment: Dr Rowarth investigates the vegan call to "give up meat to save the planet".
Rob Rattenbury: The ongoing war against possums
This is a neverending war with periods of peace after bouts of extermination.