Dairy is playing its part in reducing its impact on the environment says Dr Tim Mackle.

Consumers are being left with egg on their face, writes Linda Hall

MP for Taranaki-King Country Barbara Kuriger's gives us a rural round up.

Don't you just love being sold down the river?

I had a terrific week last week, going literally from one end of the country to the other.

Autumn management is critical to maximise production for this season.

Reading this now, in relatively fine weather, last week's storms don't seem as much of a threat. Images of the Hunua Falls raging

There's clean, pure fresh water, water everywhere, but somebody else is getting to drink it.

What do you do when a national pest is also an increasingly favourite pet in New Zealand homes? Dom George investigates.

As you crack that egg into the pan to spit away with the bacon, spare a thought for the hen who produced it and the porker who grew

It's all shearing and superannuation in this week's From the Lip.

Contrary to claims, about 80 per cent of NZ's waterways have stable or improving water quality.

Baby boomer bashing won't solve the problems, says Liam Dann.

Craig Cooper is extraordinarily badly qualified to write about fishing but has caught the same 73cm kingfish twice in two weeks. Or so he thinks.

I'm shooting backwards over rocks while clutching a thin rope in a PVC raft. A white water symphony fills my ears as our guide's voice

Nick Smith's myth about making waterways "swimmable" is turning out to be a bigger slice of preposterousness than even I at first

New Zealand First is warning the government against adopting a recommendation to end the BYO tradition, and not just at race meetings. Northland

February 28, 2017, is a date to remember in Whanganui ... we found that we had our own mountain and science learning happened as it

Well done, Rex and the Gang of Four. Our intrepid regional council has vowed to relocate and re-educate everyone who disagrees with

Every year in March and April, councils around the country issue their draft annual plans for consultation. Don't dismiss them as

Seven million trays of avocados were grown, harvested, packed, exported and marketed this season.

Concern and pessimism surrounding the recently released Maxim Institute report on the future of New Zealand's regions has raised some

COMMENT: Already visitors are reporting to the folks back home that Aotearoa is not all it's cracked up to be.

COMMENT: Every week we read in the paper that Greenpeace, the Greens, Fish and Game or Massey's Mike Joy are slagging farmers over water quality, writes Alan Emerson.

Thanks to lobbying by Federated Farmers, the Government has announced relief for quake-hit farmers.

Rain has swept in and saved the summer - and it was perfect.

People are quick to point the finger where drugs are concerned writes Dom George

COMMENT: Donald Trump evidently has a primitive view of international commerce.

Last Thursday, Environment Minister Nick Smith released a consultation document, Clean Water, setting out proposals for improving

We all want to be able to swim in our local rivers when the weather is right, and New Zealand is the perfect place with so many on offer.