Rural News

New Zealand dairy farmers are gritting their teeth as global dairy prices nose-dive to a four-year low.

Monique Steele has the rural news. Read more Audio

Rural services provider PGG Wrightson's annual profit has dropped by nearly a third with high debt and weaker real estate impacting returns.

Monique Steele has the rural news.  Read more Audio

It's been six months since Cyclone Gabrielle hit the East Coast, and in the worst hit regions along the East Coast many farmers and growers are still in survival mode.

Monique Steele has the rural… Read more Audio

R-CALF USA, the largest body representing producers of cattle and sheep in America, says the sheep industry there has been decimated over the last three decades with an explosion of lamb and mutton… Read more Audio

Punnets of kiwifruit have been recalled in the US - over listeria concerns.

Zespri says the fruit has been traced back to two orchards - so all the fruit from them is now on hold - which is about… Read more Audio