When I started this job I gave myself 60 days to settle in and to achieve certain objectives and highlight others. Some of us had

Well what a tough season it has been for the last five months. Along with the strain of a low forecast milk price we have had one

Dom has come over all festive in this week's Furious George, advising us to give to those in need this Christmas.

Last week's gentle rain was warmly greeted by all vegetable crops around the North Island. The soil was getting a touch dry after

The Country Host Jamie Mackay reflects on the good, the bad and the ugly of 2016.

I'm not sure what I was thinking, taking the grandboys to the A&P Show. I do recall the word "fun" flitting through my mind, so that

New Zealand whitebait are one of the few dining pleasures to escape the culinary assault of reality chefs.

Mike Joy's recent commentary around dams in NZ doesn't tell the full story. I agree with his headline - Agriculture must be clean

Dom George is miffed that boxing novice Jamie Mackay gets ringside seats to the Joseph Parker fight...

COMMENT: I'm not gonna lie. I'm glad to see the back end of him. Clothed, of course, writes Rachel Stewart.

"You won't remember me," a fellow retiree said in town the other day. He was wrong. Vague memories surfaced of learning to swim

Stock access to water can be an emotive issue that sparks strong reactions. It is critical in the debate about water quality and

One of the issues that has been much discussed of late has been the enforcement of resource consents. In recent weeks Hawke's Bay

As I write my final contribution for the year (and - as I am about to leave Whanganui - for the foreseeable future), I am thinking

Struggling with planting some tropical-looking plants I asked a neighbour to help lift them because they had spiky shards. "It is

"To make the Waikato River swimmable for its full length, in 80 years, will cost a large amount of money", writes Dr Doug Edmeades

When John Key became our 38th Prime Minister on November 8, 2008 it was an extraordinary turnaround from the previous election. In

COMMENT: John Key tries to smooth fears of a rising tide of US protectionism.

Earlier this year I talked about fresh water policy being driven by central government coming to our region like a freight train

Hooray - summer is finally here! Fresh new season Northland sweet corn, Oamaru jersey benne potatoes, Hawke's Bay cherries, Wairoa

Biddy Fraser-Davies has been battling the bureaucrats since 2009, when food safety officials spotted her on Country Calendar and turned

Much conservation work involves removing pests. Trapping is a major part of this, but the use of toxins is also common, although

For two weeks now the nation's attention has been on the upper South Island as the residents there struggle to get their lives on

Dom lovingly recounts The Country beer brewing process in association with Emerson's Brewery and under the iron-fist of Jamie Mackay.

I feel I really need to voice my concerns regarding the water issues that we are having in Hawke's Bay and that have become very obvious

As a result of last week's 7.8 magnitude earthquake, the government is considering emergency legislation to get Kaikoura back up and

The farm's been rattled by earthquakes, buffeted by ferocious winds and battered by horizontal rain this month.

With the changing of the guard in the Hawke's Bay Regional Council, there has been a lot of rhetoric and noise about the future of

The Country host Jamie Mackay reflects on some seismic shifts in the rural community.

Edward O. Wilson is the legendary biologist, famous for making us aware of the "square foot of soil" beneath our feet. He says for