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Heavy rain and strong wind has struck Gisborne and the Wairoa District overnight. 

Farmers on the East Coast have prepared as best they can for the storm. 

A Tairāwhiti farmer says flooding three… Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

Farmers say border exceptions being made to boost the primary sector workforce goes part of the way to helping farmers struggling to recruit workers.

The exceptions, which begin today, allow for more… Audio

The government has announced it's making exceptions to immigration rules to allow more than 1500 experienced primary sector workers to come to New Zealand.

The jobs will be in the dairy industry… Audio

Groundswell says it advocates for farmers and rural communities - but what does it stand for and is its message getting through? Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

Tom Oskam has built mountain bike trails in Australia and Canada and has returned to his family land on the Whanganui River to create tracks through the regenerating forest. The old woolshed is now… Video, Audio

Wellingtonians Gijs and Trish Veling were looking for the perfect place to retire - they found it up a gravel road near Kaeo and live as gently as they can on the land. They have a bountiful organic… Audio

Four food and wine trail maps are being developed for Northland. Audio

It's been a bit of a slow start for the early green kiwifruit harvest in Bay of Plenty with warm nights and mornings and some Southland dairy farmers are drying their herds off well over a month early… Audio

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The government's given a cash injection to the country's largest medicinal cannabis grower - saying it could become as successful as the wine industry.

Puro is a specialist cannabis grower near… Video, Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio