Record dry spell for Auckland; South faces another deluge
While Auckland reaches a record dry spell, a cyclone is approaching the South Island.
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It's great to be a Kiwi after the Tooth Fairy has waved her wand in the Year of Delivery.
Smooth as velvet
Compared to say sheep farming, deer velveting is a walk in the park workwise.
Conservation Comment: Climate change is real
The pursuit of growth, always growth, by corporations and the wealthy must stop.
Shocking photos reveal destruction of wetlands
New Zealand has lost more than 90 per cent of its wetlands to development.
Tackling climate change with BioChar
Parengarenga Incorporation tackles climate change issues with BioChar research project.
Huge offshore salmon farm faces early environmental headwinds
The plans are for a deepwater salmon farming operation in Cook Strait.
Farmers, wildlife and residents alike face water shortages as regions dry up fast
Water cuts are looming in pockets of the country drying up fast.
Bee refugees: Auckland a thriving hive for pollinating insects
Farming pesticides are killing pollinating insects, leading many to buzz off to the city.
Simon Wilson: This broken country (and the Govt that says it wants to fix it)
COMMENT: Why has Govt done so much less than promised? Simon Wilson's election challenge.
Farmer fears M.bovis back on property despite culling of 1700 cattle
The disease can cause mastitis, pneumonia, arthritis, and late-term abortions.
And now it's back to the future for a2 Milk
With the return of Geoff Babidge, its back to the future for a2 Milk.
The billionaire who built a crocodile empire
From a single egg in 1989, the crocodile empire has grown to over 20,000.
Local Focus: The lake getting weired
Saving Whakakī, the lake that's sometimes an estuary. Made with Funding from NZ On Air.
Dairy effluent figures show improvement
Farm dairy effluent management is improving in Northland.
Jamie Mackay: The good, the bad, the ugly - and my wrap of 2019
Comment: Rating the winners - and the cowardly bottom-dwelling losers - of 2019.
NZ dairy farm sales plummet, prices weaken, despite firm outlook
Dairy farm sales, and prices, have plummeted in the last two years.
Taranaki larrikin mourned after tragic workplace death
Larrikin Kiwi Robin Killeen loved horse racing, boxing and even hair dressing.
Focus Live: Dairy prices fell harder than expected at the latest GDT dairy auction
Focus Live: Dairy prices fell harder than expected at the latest GDT dairy auction.
Three decades of milk processing at Fonterra Kauri site
Fonterra Kauri has been processing milk from Northland farmers for 30 years.
Outlook rosy down on the farm
Stock prices hold despite lack of support from banks and threat of potential regulations.
'Not in the national interest': Govt blocks massive farm sale
Ministers Eugenie Sage and David Clark blocked the sale.
Local Focus: The broken bridge of Whakakī that no one owns
Closure requires mourners to walk 700m to the urupā. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Letters: Swift action needed on SH4
This section of road is beyond repair. The answer is a new road above and around the slip.
Lessons from the demise of US dairy giant Dean Foods
What can be learned from the collapse of US dairy giant, Dean Foods.
Letters: Cranstone muddies the waters
For town and country, the financial costs of healthy water are part of our mutual future.
Farmers face losing millions after land blocked off
More than 20,000 sheep and cattle inaccessible and aparists unable to harvest honey.
Comment: Why farmers have had enough
Pahiatua farmer Lincoln Grant spoke at Parliament about why farmers have had enough.
Conservation Comment: Don't vilify farmers
Government is ignoring the democratic process with proposed action on water regulations.
Attraction of nostalgia, with Western Line farm for sale
A tale about the carefree days of the 1950s and '60s paints a pretty picture.
Local Focus: Six-year-old Archie's autistic diet shifts the family farm
"Within three days he got his eye contact back". Made with funding from NZ On Air.