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Stock trading: Why NZ farmers import and export animals
New Zealand livestock has a top-class reputation internationally. Exports by sea are banned, so how else do we send animals offshore? Audio
Midday Rural News for 26 April 2023
News from the rural farming sector Audio
Calls to report 'worst weed in the world' as it spreads in regions
AgResearch is teaming up with regional councils and Rural Contractors New Zealand to collate information on alligator weed in a bid to better understand its spread.
Westland Milk Products to invest $70m at Hokitika factory
Westland Milk Products is to invest $70 million to expand its manufacturing of dairy protein lactoferrin.
Cream tea in the mix as Fonterra eyes China beverage market
Fonterra has opened a new application centre in China which will look at adding dairy products like milk, cream, butter and even cream cheese into beverages.
Farmer sentenced after hundreds of calves starved to death
A 'small number' of dead calves turned out to be more than 600.
Midday Rural News for 24 April 2023
News from the rural farming sector Audio
Morning Rural News for 24 April 2023
News from the rural and farming sector. Audio
Trial vineyard has 4000 plants grown in lab
Scientists are researching how "jumping genes" can be used to develop more robust pinot noir grapes that still have an iconic New Zealand flavour. Dr Ross Bicknell and Dr Philippa Barrell from Plant… Audio
Stop banks 'strangle' West Coast river over 60 years
Stopbanks have "strangled" South Westland's Wanganui River so much over decades the riverbed is now filling with gravel at twice the natural rate, an engineer says.
'A really critical place right now': Frustrated growers seek answers on cyclone recovery
The growers are seeking $750 million from the government to help them in three priority areas, with decisions needing to be made "yesterday".
Off grid and farming carbon
Former Wellington mayor Celia Wade-Brown lives in a tiny off-grid house and regenerates native forest on a former sheep and beef farm on the flanks of the Tararua mountain range. The carbon… Audio
Tractor with the X-Factor
It's 100 years since the distinctive all purpose Farmall tractor was introduced on a Texas farm aimed at replacing horses between the rows and reducing the need for a hired hand on small family farms… Audio
A pinnacle reached for pine nut producer
Marlborough's Pinoli Premium Pine Nuts was crowned supreme champion at this year's Outstanding New Zealand Food Producer Awards. Co-founder Lee Paterson speaks to Susan Murray. Audio
Rural News Wrap
RNZ's rural news reporter, Sally Murphy, takes a look at the week's agricultural news. Audio
Country Life for Friday April 24 2023
Off-grid and farming carbon, scientists develop new variants of Pinot Noir grapes, a tractor with the X-Factor, pinnacle reached for pine nut producer and the wrap of ag news. Audio
Helping hand for rural mental health
This time of year on the farm is about getting ready for winter, finishing lamb sales, putting rams out with ewes, managing fly strike. But the sector is doing the hard yards to recoup after recent… Audio
Midday Rural News for 21 April 2023
News from the rural farming sector Audio
'It's huge to have them here' - Hamilton businesses fear Fonterra to move
For over 60 years, dairy giant Fonterra and its predecessors have been one of the biggest employers in central Hamilton, but maybe not for much longer.
