Rural

This week the Country Life team heads to a small-scale salt farm in Northland and meets a conservationist collecting endangered wildflowers.

Federated Farmers latest pest survey of 700 farmers found farmers are spending on average $5.45 a hectare controlling pests like deer, goats, possums, cats and geese

The site will become a "hub for high value proteins" designed for "premium" products such as medical and sports nutrition.

A hemp company says it's dumping tonnes of a by-product that could be used as animal feed.

It uses 40 percent of the country's gas supply and the country needs a plan if it leaves, experts say. Audio

Milkio Foods Limited had descriptions like '100 per cent Pure New Zealand' - despite using butter from India.

Warmer weather means people can now grow fruits like pawpaw and bananas as far south as Invercargill.

Wayne Hall, general manager of Wi Pere Trust's horticulture team in Gisborne, shares his love of persimmons and a recipe for how to best enjoy the fruit.

This week the Country Life team introduces us to New Zealand's agricultural trade envoy, Hamish Marr. Cosmo visits his family's arable farm near Methven... and demand for tropical fruit trees like…

The ban on imports to New Zealand will be reviewed in seven days. Audio

The state-owned company is facing falling livestock prices, high interest rates and the ongoing costs of Cyclone Gabrielle.

Pine trees are an important part of the economy, but planting whole farms with pine trees could have flow-on impacts in regional towns, Federated Farmers says.

A farmer began putting wool under her vines six years ago and it's had great benefits.

Tomatoes NZ is calling for a ban on all tomatoes from Australia, to stop a virus entering the country and decimating Aotearoa's crops. Audio