Hollywood A-lister Reese Witherspoon is joining a flock of celebrities lining up to cover their faces in Kiwi sheep placenta.

Labour Leader David Cunliffe says a Govt he led would invest up to $200 million over four years in development projects aimed at resuscitating flagging regional economies.

Farmers in the UK are upset that a large supermarket chain is promoting New Zealand lamb over locally sourced sheepmeat.

The world's appetite for chicken is growing faster than any other meat, while pork consumption is slowing, according to an OECD report.

A parliamentary inquiry into pig farming in New Zealand should be launched immediately.

The Green Party has dismissed the new bottom lines as "weak" and argues the measures mean rivers will only have to be clean enough for wading or boating.

Landcorp, New Zealand's largest corporate farmer, is having a serious look at milking sheep.

As James Hemopo lay injured and helpless while a bull charged at him, Fonz, his farm dog, fended off the beast.

It's a long way from netball hoops to jumping through the hoops of doing business in China but farmer Mike Wilkins is aiming as carefully as his former Silver Fern wife.

A 4WD track featuring steep slopes, a waterfall, boulders and pools of water is one of the attractions at this year's National Fieldays in Hamilton.

American scientists are attempting to breed chickens that can cope with scorching heat as part of a series of government-funded programmes.

Rogue dairy farmers exploiting migrant workers have no place in the industry, a senior farming leader says.

Thousands of sheep in Australia are believed to have died after eating a poisonous plant that makes them “bash their heads on posts and rocks until they crack open”.

Despite reports, comments and rhetoric on how farmers are destroying New Zealand's waterways, a step change has occurred within the primary sector, writes John Donkers.

A large chunk of residential land for sale will enable the building of hundreds of new homes as the Auckland Council tries to solve the city's housing crisis.

French food giant Danone has entered an agreement to buy New Zealand dairy processing firms Sutton Group and Gardians.

Home owners, sitting on a near tripling of house prices over the past 20 years, are largely immune to warnings that the housing market is overheated.

Farmers are being cautioned to prepare contingency plans amid early signs of a large El Nino climate event this year.

The FMA is investigating whether the sales and marketing of interest rate swaps by major banks to rural customers may have breached the laws.

New Zealand's milk production growth is likely to be constrained over the next five years as the ability to change land use will become more difficult and expensive.

Farmers in the Waikato and parts of Northland say they are battling one of the driest summers in memory.

Fonterra's farmer members will be offered two opportunities to lock in the price paid for a percentage of their milk in the 2014/15 season.