Stories by Monique Steele

Companies are hopeful Chinese shoppers will buy New Zealand red meat this Chinese New Year.

"The most important way farmers can reach net zero is to appreciate that soils can sequestrate carbon," says Scottish oat grower.

The funds are to also help the growers with re-affirming Aotearoa's connections with indigenous peoples around the world.

The farmer-owned co-op is cost-saving while inflation bites at the farmgate, but says it is positive for the future of agriculture.

17 young shearers will try to master the craft in wool sheds across the motu, ahead of the Golden Shears.

The current New Zealand Hass avocado season will be one growers will want to forget.

A US lobby group has backed down on its call for greater import tariffs on New Zealand lamb.

The United States is advancing on the area after a string of attacks on commercial cargo ships by Iran-backed Houthi militants.

Deaf Sports New Zealand says this week's Australian Deaf Games gives deaf Kiwi athletes a chance to come together and participate as equals.

A penguin is getting fattened up at its new temporary home after travelling thousands of kilometres to Aotearoa.

It has been a busy summer season for police and crisis intervention teams helping women and children living with violence in unsafe homes.

New fast-track consenting legislation will allow projects like a large gold mine in Central Otago to go ahead more quickly, while ensuring environmental protections are in place, the Minister for…

A mining company is telling investors swathes of high-grade gold could rest beneath remote farmland.

A lucky female tawaki/Fiordland crested penguin has been returned to the wild off the West Coast this week after a scrape with danger

With the new season of shearing now underway, it is expected things will get worse.

Christmas tree nurseries are gearing up for the festive season with the first week of selling trees underway.

While E coli was the stand-out across three-quarters of all land in Aotearoa, Canterbury needs to reduce nitrogen by 44 percent, and Southland by 41 percent, a new report says.

A farming family in Banks Peninsula is playing its part in protecting the largest little penguin colony on mainland New Zealand.

Todd McClay, Nicola Grigg, Andrew Hoggard and Mark Patterson are among the line-up of ministers for the primary industry sectors.

Egg producers are hopeful prices have peaked and the egg shortage of early-2023 will soon be a distant memory.

Prices for log exports are slowly improving, but a forestry consultant says the sector must find new international markets to reduce its reliance on China.

上一个产季，洋葱产业为新西兰带来近2亿纽元经济贡献，但主要出口目的地为欧盟及印尼。随着与中国谈判的不断推进，行业预测未来几年将迎来新的增长点。

The onion industry is celebrating a step closer to getting its produce into China but there was still a "little bit of work" to get there.

The forestry company has decided to close its Gisborne mill - with 60 workers set to lose their jobs before Christmas.

The future of controversial gene technologies are expected to be top of agenda for the incoming National-led government.