Monique Steele

Insurance companies will no longer be able to cover the now harsher fines.

Investors are hoping New Zealand's radiata pine trees can be turned into biochemicals in the hunt for alternatives to plastic.

Pacific leaders are highlighting challenges their workers are facing while working in Aotearoa before returning home - and New Zealand's role to support them.

Farmers could help drive the biogas industry as demand grows for greener alternatives to LPG and fossil fuels.

More than 800 produce companies, growers, regulators and government officials attended the two-day horticulture and RSE conferences in Wellington. Audio

New Zealand's largest mānuka honey producer Comvita is eyeing a company sale, amid challenging times in the global honey sector.

Legislation being drafted to bring back the controversial trade of live animal exports by sea is getting stuck in the cogs of Cabinet.

Southland officials are warning the pines have caused a land-use and biosecurity crisis for the region.

New Zealand shoppers are getting good prices for new season avocados, as harvest volumes balance out after a record year last year.

Low product prices have prompted desperate calls for New Zealand farmers, mills and shoppers to take up local grain.

Tasman district farmers hit by recent floods are trying to piece their riverside farms back together, after losing land, livestock, bridges and key fencing infrastructure.

Many scientists say the effective near 30-year ban on the use of gene technologies has held them back from progress.

One resident said the dogs chewed through mesh wire to break into their bird aviary.

反对转基因团体认为此举侵害了消费者的知情选择权，零售业表示将确保上架产品完全合规。

Food Standards Australia New Zealand approved updated definitions for genetically-modified food in the Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code in June for review, following public consultation. Audio

Recent trials on New Zealand farms resulted in a reduction of methane emissions.

The country's largest pastoral farmer is forecasting a record profit for the last financial year, as high prices for dairy and red meat help offset adverse weather events.

The agriculture minister has apologised to New Zealand's top beef exporters for extra costs they will likely face due to new anti-deforestation rules for European Union imports.

Carbon farming on productive land under the Emissions Trading Scheme was driving the significant reduction in livestock numbers.

Around 6000 farms were estimated to qualify for a $1500 reimbursement for an on-farm emissions reduction tool this season.

And what management changes are the Regional Council considering? Audio

The head of the silt removal programme after Cyclone Gabrielle is drawing "eerie" similarities with Nelson Tasman floods.

Around 30 local farmers had been dealing with the Tasman District Council for years on ways to mitigate bank erosion and flood protection in the area.

Staff at the Ministry for Primary Industries are visiting flood-affected farms in Nelson Tasman to check on the wellbeing of animals and farmers.

Things are getting sticky for the country's honey sector, as the lack of a united voice for the country's thousands of producers, beekeepers and exporters continues to sting its leaders.