‘Like a treasure map’: New tool points CHB farmers to more profitable crops
Growers simply enter their address, and the app generates a colour-coded suitability rating that integrates long-term climate, economic…
Please don’t buy your mum anti-ageing skincare for Mother’s Day
Everyone wants your mum positively drenched in overpriced goo this Mother’s Day, writes Alex Casey. After entering a…
Ferry fuel surcharge will disproportionately affect farmers, says transport leader
Bluebridge’s FAF was currently at 37%, after peaking at 48% last month. Several South Island transport companies moving…
More Minnesota farmers seeking help to navigate mental health challenges
The past couple years have been challenging for Minnesota farmers, prompting many to seek help navigating their mental…
Lab-grown meat and dairy: Futurist sees threats, opportunities for New Zealand farmers
“A really good example is a company called Helaina, but there’s a bunch of them who are making…
Pāmu selects Wairoa farmers as equity partners at Mahiwi sheep and beef farm
Hassall and Wilson, who grew up locally, farm a nearby lease block, which Wilson will continue to manage…
Act immigration policy: Erica Stanford says David Seymour hasn’t thought through policy she says will hurt businesses, farmers
She said it “certainly feels like” Act was trying to match the anti-immigration policies of New Zealand First.…
Burnouts, toots and taunts: Waikato farmer confronts teens with tractor, metal pole
“They were enticing a reaction, they wanted a reaction and they got a reaction,” Judge Philip Crayton said…
Taupō fertiliser plant offers relief as Iran war squeezes supply
Tnue has partnered with Ballance and Ravensdown, which together account for about 90% of the country’s fertiliser market,…
Recidivist ‘high-risk’ shoplifting mum Alicia Te Papa claims she’s an undiagnosed kleptomaniac
Now Judge Tini Clark has handed her more jail time after she appeared for sentencing in the Hamilton…
NZ hop farmers diversify as US tariffs make market harder to crack
The company supplies its hops to local Stoke beers, one of the many ventures of late craft beer…
Mouse plague fears deepen as chemical regulator rejects CSIRO bait research
Farmers battling the worst mouse plague they have ever seen across Western Australia say a solution is being…