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By now most farmers have all or a good portion of their new season lamb crop on the ground. In the North Island favourable lambing

The Minister for Primary Industries looks at the sheep meat industry and the East Otago Field Days.

Jamie Mackay and Damien O'Connor discuss who is the biggest left-wing tosser on The Country. Seriously.

Another massive yarding of over 5600 prime hoggets at yesterday's Feilding Prime Stock Sale had everyone questioning how many more

Britain's arrangements for leaving the European Union (EU) by the summer of 2019 and progress towards an EU-NZ free trade agreement

Julian Aitken regularly tests the water underground and downstream from his feedlot. "We are having no impact, in fact nitrogen levels

What makes a good leader? Good people reckons Sir Graeme Harrison.

Taupō farmers Mike and Sharon Barton are suitably modest about their inclusion in a new glossy book featuring 15 of the best

The Fed Farmers Rural Security Spokesperson discusses poaching and the devastating effects it has on rural NZ.

Federated Farmers Dairy Chair Andrew Hoggard caught up with Dom George to talk all things dairy.

Olympic pole vault bronze medalist Eliza McCartney has joined Beef + Lamb New Zealand's Iron Maidens.

Dog attacks and kills sheep in Northland

Opposition frustration is mounting over any signs of progress on a top level inquiry into the Government's controversial Saudi sheep

Feral sheep are under threat but Wimbledon farmer Brian Hales is showcasing what these exotic breeds have to offer. Made with funding from NZ on Air

Feral sheep are under threat but Wimbledon farmer Brian Hales is showcasing what these exotic breeds have to offer. Made with funding from NZ on Air

Education sessions will be next year added to Central Otago's woolliest fashion showcase.

A Balclutha man who stabbed a sheep to death told the farmer he did it because he was hungry.

Alliance Group chairman Murray Taggart discusses the highs and lows of the sheep meat industry

Amazing tastes of the exotic, eels in the wetland, a display of endangered, rare and unique creatures found on Brian Hales' Wimbledon

A slump in dairy and beef exports and higher than expected imports have left a $1.26 billion trade deficit...

New Zealand's trade deficit widened to the biggest monthly gap since September 2014 as dairy and meat exports slumped in August. The

New Zealand wool prices generally advanced at the country's latest weekly auction, which featured the greatest number of bales on

Our freelance rural commentator comments on Silver Fern Farms, Fonterra, global warming and teaching townies to grow veges.

Rain, the promise of grass growth and finishers with contracts to fill meant store lambs were fully firm on last week at Stortford

A Central Otago plane crash near the Poolburn Reservoir in 2014 that killed the pilot and seriously injured two passengers was caused

We give the Silver Fern Farms Chairman the opportunity to refute Winston's claims that the Shanghai Maling deal could see SFF jilted at the altar!

The New Zealand First leader is at his curmudgeonly best when talking about Silver Fern Farms and the lift in the Fonterra forecast payout.

Silver Fern Farms would be a ''company unleashed'' now approval for Shanghai Maling to buy 50% of the Dunedin meat processor had been

We ask the 2011 Young Farmer of the Year if he knows where the 500 missing Mid Canterbury cows are?