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The University of Georgia's Victor Thompson is the lead author of a just-published study shedding light on just how the Calusa, a Native American people of Florida's southwest coast, outlived so many… Audio

Rob Schulter grows coffee in Doubtless Bay in the Far North. He's just sold two thousand coffee tree seedlings to locals in the hopes they'll add to Northland's commercial coffee production. Audio

Kees Huizinga is back at his cropping and dairy farm in Ukraine, trying to plant spring crops as war rages in many parts of the country. His 15,000 hectare farm, about 200 kilometres south of Kyiv… Audio

Alison Watson has extensive international experience dealing with the fall army worm which can wipe out crops. The pest was found in Tauranga and near Hamilton this month. She heads ASEAN's fall… Audio

Gisborne vegetable growers are sick of being blamed for food price hikes which means people are chosing less healthy food options, and grass growth in mid and south Canterbury is exceptional for this… Audio

Country Life is drinking coffee in Northland and, at 60 dollars for 130 grams it makes a cup of coffee a tad more than even the recently talked about $7 cup. There's gritty determination from a farmer… Audio

Central Otago fencing contractor Scott Watson is a busy man. He says more and more farmers are calling on him to do their fencing because they no longer have time to do the work themselves. The… Audio

New inflation figures show grocery food prices have gone up 6.7 percent in the past year. Fruit and vegetable prices are up 18 percent. What costs are involved in the rising prices?

Chair of… Video, Audio

Just when we thought it couldn't get any higher, fruit and vegetable growers say they may be forced to let crops rot as record inflation takes hold.

Tomatoes, broccoli and lettuces have already… Video, Audio

The honey sector wants to move away from volume and focus on value. 

A daily wrap of the rural news with Kim Moodie. Audio

The winners of the Fieldays No.8 Wire National Art Awards were announced last night. The awards were launched back in 1997 to give artists a platform to celebrate the iconic material through art and… Audio

The war in Ukraine could see us planting more sunflowers.

All the latest rural news with Susan Murray. Audio