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Govt extends assistance for drought-affected farmers
22 Apr 2025The payment amounts are equivalent to the jobseeker benefit.
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'Bumper' salt volumes in cyclone recovery at Lake Grassmere
16 Apr 2025Harvest produced nothing after being disrupted by Cyclone Gabrielle.
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Fat of the land: Modern homesteading in Central Otago
16 Apr 2025Self-suffiency pro Gillian Swinton says living off the land is about community and giving back.
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Grape growers take steps to minimise carbon footprint
16 Apr 2025Climate change is a key threat facing the wine industry.
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Vietnam 'a real star' for NZ apples and kiwifruit - so which are next?
A new deal has offered hope for more products from New Zealand's horticulture sector to enter the lucrative market of Southeast Asia's fastest-growing economy.
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Weathering the 'worst drought in 50 years' as an organic dairy farmer
13 Apr 2025Moving to once-a-day milking has helped Janet Fleming through Taranaki's recent drought.
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Clevedon - where the water buffalo roam
11 Apr 2025Clevedon couple Richard and Helen Dorresteyn were the first to farm water buffalo in New Zealand.
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'We've become a $10 million business and it doesn't feel like we're overrun'
13 Apr 2025Phil Moeke is the manager of Te Kōhaka o Tāne (The Nest of Tānemahuta), a commercial nursery in Invercargill that has grown over 800,000 native trees and plants since it opened in 2022.
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'Thousands of them': Uproar over illegal dumping of dead animals
11 Apr 2025Animal carcasses have put community water at risk of contamination in the Far North, causing frustration among residents.
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Wood, hemp sectors want to join wool in new government construction rules
Other sectors are disappointed they have so far missed out on the government's boost for the wool sector.
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Mt Taranaki eruption could cut off 5000 farms
9 Apr 2025Researchers many roads and bridges around the mountain could be affected if the volcano were ever to erupt.
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NZ's largest farm clear of bovine tuberculosis
New Zealand's largest working farm, Molesworth Station, has declared its cattle free of bovine tuberculosis for the first time in nearly 40 years.
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Tiny 'green thumbs' produce winning giant pumpkin in Northland
9 Apr 2025A four-year-old Northland girl has been awarded for her giant pumpkin growing skills for the second year in a row.
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MPI's consultant spend halved, still $40m in FY2024
9 Apr 2025Government departments and agencies were ordered to find savings last year, including salaried and contracted staff.
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'Sea sausage': Kiwi fishers create innovative crayfish bait
7 Apr 2025The bait is made entirely of crayfish waste products.
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Country Life: 'I always give them a little blessing before they fly away'
5 Apr 2025Gloria Harris has been running a nohinohi little owl and ruru morepork rescue service for 30 years. "I've probably cared for close to 300 birds."
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Sculpture festival with rural backblocks flavour at Kimbolton
4 Apr 2025The tiny Manawatū town will host the biennial event for the fifth time this weekend.
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Farmer sentenced to ban, community detention for neglecting sheep
9 Apr 2025Inspectors found 25 sheep and several newborn lambs recently dead on the Tararua property.
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NZ hazelnut producers plead for more research to crack open opportunities
4 Apr 2025Local growers account for just 10-15 percent of the nuts consumed in New Zealand each year. Audio
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Marsden Point closure sparks five-year delay, re-location of $70m glasshouse
2 Apr 2025Northland will likely miss out on a multimillion-dollar, government-backed vegetable growing operation following the closure of the Marsden Point refinery near Whangārei.
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Tasman famers pin hopes on forecast rainfall
2 Apr 2025A farmer in the drought-stricken Tasman District says the heavy rain forecast for tomorrow will be a much-needed relief.
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Industrial hemp should be an 'agricultural crop' not a 'drug', says grower
1 Apr 2025The industrial hemp sector is feeling unified and buoyant by a long-awaited regulatory review that it hopes will see more farmers adopt the crop and unlock its economic, social and environmental…
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Father-of-two wins shearing double-crown
1 Apr 2025The first-time finalist blitzed the field during Saturday's Great New Zealand Muster, shearing 25 sheep in less than 20 minutes.
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Plastic wrap producers targeted under proposed 'Green Farms' scheme
6 Apr 2025A levy would contribute to the recycling of baleage and silage covers.
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