Gianina Schwanecke

The Duff family's focus is working with nature when it comes to their permaculture farm and organic nursery, Kahikatea Farm.

The important whole-milk powder price, which influences farmer payouts, rose 4.5 percent.

Sir Charles Godfray has told the Riddet Institute's Agrifood Summit our food systems will have to change in order to limit the impacts of global warming.

Geotechnical work has started as part of a feasibility study for the Heretaunga Water Storage Facility.

A look inside the Hokonui Moonshine Museum where the manufacture of this legendary spirit continues in the modern day.

The average price rose 3.6 percent - the fourth consecutive increase of the year.

A look at how Clyde Orchard's recent cherry and stonefruit harvest has gone and a tour of a new purpose built accommodation for its RSE workers.

A 1100-hectare block near Wairoa had its annual rates bill skyrocket from $30,000 a year to $200,000.

The southern hemisphere's only still operating river ferry celebrates 130 years.

Ingka Investments, the parent company of furniture giant IKEA, now owns 30,000 hectares of forestry in Aotearoa. Its first purchase saw the conversion of Wisp Hill Station in southern Otago from…

New Zealand's only dung beetle rearing facility says it may have to close if there's not more support.

Farmers on the East Coast are worried about how long it will take to reopen storm-damaged State Highway 2.

"You can come here and see nearly every type of forestry system that can be applied," Blair Jamieson says of Tāmata Hauhā's demonstration farm near Palmerston North.

Rural postie Tracy Marshall takes visitors along her mail delivery route which winds along the Whanganui River.

Meat inspectors gathered at Parliament on Monday to express their concerns about the proposed changes.

Strong beef prices are helping raise record funds as part of a fundraising scheme that's been going for more than 40 years.

Tariffs on a range of New Zealand exports including apples were first introduced in April at 10 percent, and increased to 15 percent in August.

Tangihau 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.

Set 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.

Since officially opening last April, Leaderbrand's Future Farms facility has allowed it to grow salad greens all year round.

Wairarapa sheep farmer Paul Crick is one of hundreds out collecting poo samples from his flock as part of a national study.

ASB senior economist Chris Tennent-Brown says a price fall was not unexpected.

Set on 40 hectares near the university's Palmerston North campus, the Large Animal Teaching Unit, is home to a menagerie of animals for veterinary students to work with.

RNZ reporter Kate Green has recently returned from parts of Southeast Asia as part of a Jefferson Fellowship exploring food security issues across the region.

Increased farmer confidence and spending has seen the country's largest rural supply store, Farmlands, back in black.