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Nearly 1000 bales of hay stolen in single day
4 Apr 2025Police are investigating the theft of hundreds of bales of hay worth thousands of dollars in Taranaki.
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'Fly Ferns' prepare to tackle world's best anglers
3 Apr 2025The team are clocking up the training hours on the world-class waterways of the Central North Island.
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Silver Fern Farms restructures, records another loss
The red meat company has recorded another bit loss, which it put down to low market pricing and "historically low" livestock flows in 2024.
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Farmers 'stuck having to use bale wrap'
1 Apr 2025Baleage preserves the quality of winter fodder on the farm, but calls to improve farm plastic recycling rates or solve the problem of silage wrap waste altogether are growing louder.
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On-farm learning a success - "I've been enjoying it. I like being with the cows and being in the shed"
30 Mar 2025A training initiative in Southland is giving young adults with high-functioning disabilities the skills required to work on a dairy farm.
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NZ Hops chalks up EU export 'win' amid glut
Increased hops production has led to a surplus of the dried flower used in beer making or for medicinal purposes.
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Hundreds of sheep scramble through Te Kūiti
29 Mar 2025Te Kūiti has opened its main street to welcome a herd of hundreds of sheep running the gauntlet, for its annual Great New Zealand Muster festival. Audio
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The guardian dog breeds protecting farmer's stock
27 Mar 2025They may look like your usual bundle of fluff or large Labrador pup, but these Maremma sheepdogs are a breed of their own.
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The kūmara connection
28 Mar 2025It's nearly time for the kūmara harvest at Kai Rotorua and this year, old meets new.
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NZ's fruit wins in competitive Vietnamese produce market
26 Mar 2025NZ apple exporters are trying to capitalise on the increasingly wealthy Vietnamese consumer, while elbowing out global competition. Audio
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'Record' year for cherry exports
26 Mar 2025This year's exports fetched about $124 million for New Zealand, according to Infometrics data.
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'It's just barren': Veteran farmer reckons Tasman's drought worst ever
27 Mar 2025Alf Kinzett has been feeding out since Christmas and will need to buy more feed for winter.
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Thousands flock to South Island Agricultural Field Days
26 Mar 2025Under the backdrop of the Southern Alps, around 600 exhibitors have set up for the event.
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Farmer productivity should improve under RMA reforms - Federated Farmers
26 Mar 2025The current Act is "broken", making it difficult to get things done with too many things requiring a resource consent, the group says.
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Kiwifruit exporter claim world first in all product sold with home-compostable labels
25 Mar 2025The home-compostable labels, developed with labelling technology experts Sinclair, were officially launched last October, but the transition away from plastic labels has taken time.
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NZ rodeo draws crowds including protesters and a minister
25 Mar 2025The welfare of animals involved in rodeos continue to divide those in the sport and animal rights activists.
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Deep dive: See the potential that is seaweed
21 Mar 2025As part of Aotearoa's first seaweed festival, Pacific Harvest hosted a seaweed tasting event where people could sample various red, green and brown dried seaweeds.
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Sheep to chic with cosy crossbred wool
21 Mar 2025Sometimes it takes an outsider to come in and give a dyed-in-the-wool farmer a wee nudge. This is where Southland entrepreneur Laura Todd comes in.
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Good times, tough times and everything in between
22 Mar 2025Farming in the wake of the Mount Tarawera eruption has tested the Ford family for nearly a century.
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South Taranaki farmers say drought is worst in more than 40 years
MetService's Hāwera weather station has recorded just 123mm this summer - a little over half what it normally gets.
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Spring Sheep Milk Co takes on new investors
20 Mar 2025Company chief executive Nick Hammond said the investors are agri-business people from New Zealand and the US, as well as two Chinese investors to boost in-country marketing.
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Chlorinated water in your Sav? No, say winemakers
20 Mar 2025Marlborough's wine sector wants its water supply exempted from chlorination to protect production in the home of sauvignon blanc.
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Fonterra's half-year profit jumps to $729 million
The latest results show the dairy co-op is in great shape, its chief executive says.
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Some grapes won't make it into the vat this year
19 Mar 2025With wine still in vats from last year, lower sales and uncertainty over tariffs there's nervousness in the industry.
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