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New rules for small-scale butchers
The government is looking to cut red tape for small meat processors and is also exploring how homekill meat could be made suitable for sale.
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A district 'swallowed' by pine trees: Fears over IKEA forests
5 Dec 2025The Swedish furniture giant is one of the biggest forestry owners in a region, and it's worrying residents.
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Kiwis putting cost of living ahead of environment, ministry boss says
5 Dec 2025The Ministry for the Environment boss believes New Zealanders are more concerned about immediate pressures on households, than the environment.
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You say 'Wayleggo' and I say 'Wal-a-go'!
6 Dec 2025How do sheep dogs and shepherds' handling techniques vary between New Zealand and Australia? The best teams battle it out at a Trans-Tasman dog trial, the…
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Cash cows more like cash bulls
6 Dec 2025Tangihau Angus near Gisborne has a habit of breaking records. Last year it set a top price for New Zealand bulls at $135,000. This year it's done it again, setting a new record price of $161,000.
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Risqué and rural
6 Dec 2025How an unusual business selling adult toys has found opportunity on the main street of Eketāhuna.
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Biosecurity mulls how to fund hornet hunt
5 Dec 2025It's estimated the war against the yellow-legged hornet in Auckland is costing about $1 million a month. Audio
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Why haven't butter prices fallen?
4 Dec 2025The price of butter has been one of the big consumer issues of this year. Audio
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Final ETS auction of the year fails to sell a single carbon unit
An experienced trader says government back-tracking on climate change has tanked the price that emitters have to pay for carbon units.
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Hawke's Bay Horse of the Year show cancelled
3 Dec 2025Held in the Hastings Showgrounds every year in March, it's one of the largest equestrian events in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Dairy prices hit near two-year low after eighth consecutive fall
The average price at the global auction fell 4.3 percent following 3 percent drop two weeks ago.
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Fatal cases of African swine fever worry local pork industry
29 Nov 2025The head of New Zealand Pork believes the country should be concerned about Spain's confirmed cases of African swine fever.
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Hawke's Bay farm's agritourism 'terroir'
29 Nov 2025Set on the coast of Hawke's Bay, Te Aratipi Station offers walkers on the farm views across the bay, from the Māhia Peninsula right around to Mt Ruapehu on a clear day.
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Keeping salad greens on the shelves, 52 weeks of the year
29 Nov 2025Since officially opening last April, Leaderbrand's Future Farms facility has allowed it to grow salad greens all year round.
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Smashing it - a greener life growing avocados
29 Nov 2025Spreading the love for avocados through farm tours is a way to balance the highs and lows of avocado growing for two IT pros turned orchardists.
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Grain growers chase dairy dollar
28 Nov 2025Some arable farmers are converting their farms to dairy.
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NZ's longest-serving meat worker retires after 64 years
28 Nov 2025Ken McLeod, 80, says it felt like he had "robbed a bank" when he got his pay cheques in the mid-1960s. Audio
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Habits may change as price of beef mince soars by 18%
27 Nov 2025The average price of a one-kilogram pack of beef mince climbed 18 percent since the start of the year.
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The one thing hard-core conservationists and farmers agree on
A predator that feeds on native species and spreads disease among livestock is a target for all.
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Sheep dog trials return to screen in new broadcasting deal
26 Nov 2025Sheep dog trials at next year's New Zealand Rural Games will play on TVNZ's platforms.
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High beef prices hit McDonald's NZ's bottom line
Not even fast food giant McDonald's New Zealand is immune to the rising cost of food, especially for key burger ingredient beef.
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Lower payout for dairy farmers despite record production
Milk production hit historic levels last month, but high global supply has seen Fonterra lower its forecast farmgate milk price - which one analyst says will disincentivise production.
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Fonterra narrows Farmgate Milk Price point
25 Nov 2025Strong milk flows in NZ and other milk-producing changes have seen the price range narrow to $9.50 a kilo of milk solids, from $10.
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Kelmarna Community Farm celebrates 40 years with new book
24 Nov 2025The 4 and a half acre block of land is nestled between the Auckland suburbs of Ponsonby and Herne Bay, the last place you'd expect to find a farm. Audio
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Pig farm hit with record fine after 'appalling' offending
24 Nov 2025The farm had sewage tanks overflowing into waterways, with repeated violations one of "the worst cases" officials had ever dealt with.. Video
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Hoggard denies conflict of interest
24 Nov 2025SAFE has made a complaint to the prime minister after the decision to allow the continued use of farrowing crates and mating stalls.
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'I never thought I'd be called a poo hunter': Inside facial eczema study
22 Nov 2025Wairarapa sheep farmer Paul Crick is one of hundreds out collecting poo samples from his flock as part of a national study.
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Farmer flying high with agri drone venture
22 Nov 2025Te Kuiti farmer Mitchel Hoare has a new side hustle, operating a drone to help other farmers improve the land.
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