Stories by Susan Murray

Pasture seeds from New Zealand have just arrived in a doomsday mountain vault in Norway - safeguarding their survival into the future.

The Northland peanut trials are back on track after a wash-out of last year's crops.

While the "volume and frequency" of the discharge has decreased, effluent is still leaving the Waikato farm.

Bay of Plenty kiwifruit growers are staring down the barrel of another difficult growing season.

Several New Zealand sawmills producing housing timber are temporarily halting production, as the construction sector slows.

A Wairoa farming leader says the relentless rain still falling in northern Hawke's Bay is like a recurring nightmare and farmers are beside themselves.

Private farm walks are taking a financial hit due to cancellations from Aucklanders unable to travel, with some losing 40 percent of their bookings.

Intensive winter grazing practices have improved but more effort needs to go into compliance and monitoring activities by regional councils, a new report has found.

The government should maintain funding for a programme promoting health careers to rural high school pupils, a GPs' group says.

Northland and Bay of Plenty are next in line for older residents to get free screening kits.

Ben Stubbs farms 650ha in the Waitomo area and auto-kill possum traps on his native bush block have nailed more than 800 possums this year.

A rural GP says the nationwide bowel screening programme will miss the mark with his patient group and its success will be limited.

Prices have been on a strong run since November due to Chinese demand and a gap in supply, a forestry consultant and exporter says.

There are hopes the use of te reo Māori in shearing competitions will become much more commonplace.

Wood processors are slamming successive governments for failing to support New Zealand's struggling wood processing mills.

The global pandemic has New Zealand wool carpet manufacturers spinning, with demand increasing from customers here and in the US.

Zespri is considering co-operation with Chinese kiwifruit growers who are illegally growing New Zealand's gold G3 kiwifruit.

Māori names have been given to three new Japanese built ships, constructed as export volumes from New Zealand increase.

The government is backing plans to give a new lease of life to Taratahi Agricultural Training Centre, near Masterton.