Rural News

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

A proposed country of origin food labelling law has been stripped-back by the select committee considering it. Audio

News from the rural and farming sectors. Audio

The Minister of Agriculture says wool is a vital industry with good environmental qualities and a summit meeting today must find a way to lift its performance. Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

Federated Farmers is reminding lifestyle owners that they must take care about the risk of Mycoplasma bovis on their properties. Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

Sixty businesses who produce nearly half of all New Zealand's greenhouse gas emissions have pledged to reduce them, to seek offsets like planting trees and to strictly monitor their emissions. Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

An economic consultancy which has studied the dairy industry says farmers face a potential one percent loss of earnings from disagreement over Fonterra's internal financing. Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

Divisions are growing in the dairy industry over the way Fonterra works out the highly influential price it pays farmers for milk. Audio