Rural News

The country's largest meat processor and marketer, Silver Fern Farms, has just reported a net loss after tax of $24.4 million for the 2023 financial year.

Monique Steele has the rural news. Read more Audio

An over-reliance on supplying logs for China's once booming construction sector is biting, as demand dries up - pulling prices down as forestry exports are forecast to drop 9 percent.

Sally Murphy… Read more Audio

Farmers spending less is having flow-on effects in the regions, and it's been especially tough in Southland where some businesses have had to close down due to the economic downturn.

Sally Murphy has… Read more Audio

As part of the European Union Free Trade Deal, some cheese names like feta and gorgonzola will be protected so can't be used by New Zealand producers. 

Sally Murphy has the rural news. Read more Audio

The head of kiwifruit grower group NZKGI says growers are the most positive he's ever seen them at the start of a season.

Sally Murphy has the rural news. Read more Audio

A couple of days after saying pumping water into the dried up Greenstreet Creek was not a straight forward activity and would only be a temporary solution - the Canterbury regional council's chief… Read more Audio