COMMENT: Grumpy, tired and cold? Try changing your diet, writes Niki Bezzant.

"Health and safety is making sure I don't have to tell your family you aren't coming home"

Sneeze may have caused collision with milk tanker and grain truck.

Studies have shown general farm workers and males are more likely to take their own life.

Farmers and contractors who have staff must adhere to new minimum employment standards

Clear up took 100 people, including 40 abseilers to get the material removed

Anti-1080 campaigners say 1080 drop in the Makarora Valley last month wasn't necessary

The first sign Graeme Robb had epilepsy was when he smashed through a farm gate on an ATV.

Nathan Guy has welcomed $1.2m of funding to combat animal and horticultural disease.

A new $10,000 grant from BayTrust will allow Taupō's Neighbourhood Support to continue its focus on encouraging rural residents to

A contract milking company and dairy farm owner have been fined $29,000 each for effluent overflow.

Surgeons want to ban quad bike use by kids, but PM says they're doing enough.

Dom George chats to Paul Blondell about taking part in the Massey vet student naked calendar Barely There.

The Royal Australasian College of Surgeons is calling for quad bikes to be banned after the death of a 6-year old girl. Do you think they are overreacting?

Lake Waihola has displayed high concentrations of potentially toxic cyanobacteria.

Agriculture-related issues are seen as the second-biggest environmental problem for NZ.

Fatalities in the Southern agriculture sector are at a five-year low, with only one reported fatality for 2016. WorkSafe sector leader

About 90 anti-1080 protesters thronged the pavement outside the Federated Farmers' building in downtown Wellington in early December

The search is on again for New Zealand's best Rural General Practice Team of the Year as judged by the community.

Contractors load pre-feed bait into helicopters at Cameron Flat near Makarora yesterday as part of the Department of Conservation

These are cases that we see very frequently and they often provide much frustration to pets, owners and vets. An itchy animal will

No toxins have been found in the Albert Town lagoon despite extremely high levels of a potentially toxic algae. Water samples taken

The Otago Regional Council seems likely to spend up to $50,000 in unbudgeted funding to co-ordinate the release of a Korean strain

A freshwater scientist has raised concerns about the level of bacteria found in some of New Zealand's waterways...

At times of stock or weather crisis it is more than just the finances that take a battering within the farming community. There is

It seems implausible, in this age of worldwide connectivity and immediate access to information, that councils, district health boards

A popular fishing spot off a wharf at Whangarei Harbour has been snagged by health and safety laws casting keen fishers aside. The

Thousands of dollars later the horror of the gastro crisis keeps on giving for one Havelock North family. During the outbreak mother

Local business owners have compared Havelock North to a "ghost town" during the gastro outbreak as revenues plummeted and customers

The costs of last year's Havelock North gastro crisis are stacking up as the Hastings District Council yesterday announced it spent