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  • Why our biggest exporters are worried about going GMO

    News
    New Zealand In Depth
    23 Apr 2025
    Composite of dairy cow, grass and DNA double helix.

    Is New Zealand really risking billions by changing its genetic modification laws?

    Why some of our biggest exporters are worried about the Gene Technology Bill
  • Medicinal cannabis producers veer away from local market for export

    News
    Business Country
    23 Apr 2025
    Harvesting cannabis flowers at Puro's Kēkerengū farm on the Kaikōura Coast.

    New Zealand's medicinal cannabis sector is warning that "onerous" regulations around production are restricting the local sector, while international players flood the market.

    Medicinal cannabis producers veer away from local market for export
  • Weathering the 'worst drought in 50 years' as an organic dairy farmer

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    Country Country Life
    13 Apr 2025
    Janet Fleming has been an organic dairy farmer for 20 years. More recently she's branched out into growing a range of organic botanicals.

    "I've been farming quite a long time and, yeah, it's been tough going," Pihama dairy farmer Janet Fleming told Country Life.

    Weathering the 'worst drought in 50 years' as an organic dairy farmer
  • Weathering the 'worst drought in 50 years' as an organic dairy farmer

    News
    Country Country Life
    13 Apr 2025
    Janet Fleming has been an organic dairy farmer for 20 years. More recently she's branched out into growing a range of organic botanicals.

    Moving to once-a-day milking has helped Janet Fleming through Taranaki's recent drought.

    Weathering the 'worst drought in 50 years' as an organic dairy farmer
  • Weathering the 'worst drought in 50 years' as an organic dairy farmer

    Audio
    rural Taranaki
    11 Apr 2025

    Organic dairy farmer Janet Fleming is in her eighth season of once a day milking, something she credits with helping get her through Taranaki's recent drought. She's also trialling growing a range of… Audio

  • Plastic wrap producers targeted under proposed 'Green Farms' scheme

    News
    New Zealand Country
    6 Apr 2025
    Harvesting and baling

    A levy would contribute to the recycling of baleage and silage covers.

    Plastic wrap producers targeted under proposed 'Green Farms' scheme
  • Half a century on organics pioneers seek 'new blood' for farm

    News
    Business Country
    4 Apr 2025
    Jim Kebbell and Marion Wood, who co-founded Commonsense Organics, bought the Te Horo farm known as Common Property in the 1970s.

    One of the country's oldest organically certified farms is looking for the next generation to lead its operations.

    Half a century on organics pioneers seek 'new blood' for Ōtaki farm
  • Marsden Point closure sparks five-year delay, re-location of $70m glasshouse

    News
    New Zealand Business
    2 Apr 2025
    A tomato plant with three bright red tomatoes growing.

    Northland will likely miss out on a multimillion-dollar, government-backed vegetable growing operation following the closure of the Marsden Point refinery near Whangārei.

    Marsden Point closure sparks five-year delay, re-location of $70m glasshouse
  • NZ Hops chalks up EU export 'win' amid glut

    News
    Country food
    28 Mar 2025
    Hops from Tasman

    Increased hops production has led to a surplus of the dried flower used in beer making or for medicinal purposes.

    NZ Hops chalks up EU export 'win' amid glut
  • The guardian dog breeds protecting farmer's stock

    News
    Country
    27 Mar 2025
    Wairarapa organic gardeners Josje Neerincx and Frank van Steensel say having Maremma sheepdogs on their farm have helped them save $1500 a month from damage to crops from pests like hares, possums and pūkeko.

    They may look like your usual bundle of fluff or large Labrador pup, but these Maremma sheepdogs are a breed of their own.

    The guardian dog breeds protecting farmer's stock
  • All the 'tea' on farming organic native tea

    Audio
    food farming
    19 Mar 2025
    Kawakawa leaves

    An old airstrip in Whakatane has become home to rows and rows of native herbs which eventually get turned into tea. That's the work of Laureen and Dan Andrews, who left their lives in Rotorua behind… Audio

  • NZ deepens agricultural, forestry collaboration with India

    News
    IndoNZ
    18 Mar 2025
    Zespri kiwifruit harvest

    New Zealand and India sign horticulture and forestry agreements to foster knowledge exchange, trade opportunities and industry growth between the two nations.

    New Zealand deepens agricultural, forestry collaboration with India
  • Kiwi Gene therapy scientist's warning over GMO bill

    Audio
    health
    18 Mar 2025
    Fresh sweet corn on wooden table

    A New Zealand scientist who works on gene therapies to treat human diseases - is sounding a warning over the loosening of our laws on genetic modification.  Audio

  • Academics call for urgent action on nitrate pollution

    News
    New Zealand environment
    13 Mar 2025
    Professor Simon Hales, Associate Professor Tim Chambers, Marnie Prickett, University of Otago research fellow

    A trio of academics are calling on the Canterbury Regional Council to take urgent action on what they deem a water pollution crisis.

    Academics call for urgent action on nitrate pollution
  • 'Back to the land': Commune still going strong after 50 years

    News
    Country Country Life
    8 Mar 2025
    Rainbow Community

    Rainbow Valley is located on regenerating whenua at the end of a gravel road near Tākaka. Several families share the land and help run a small farm for the benefit of the whole community.

    Country Life: 'When the hippies bought it, they said no to farming and burning'
  • Grape picking starts soon at organic Waipara Valley vineyard

    Audio
    rural
    7 Mar 2025

    A pre-harvest update from the Greystone Wines, that recently hosted the inaugural Underground soil, food and farming festival, with viticulturalist and farming advisor, Nick Gill. Audio

  • CNMI agriculture census: Vegetables and melons dominate crop production

    News
    Pacific
    6 Mar 2025
    Variety of fresh organic vegetables on the market. Tomato, onion, cucumber, pepper

    The census also revealed that there were 316 farms in the Northern Marianas in 2023, up 25% from the last census.

    CNMI agriculture census: Vegetables and melons dominate crop production
  • 'Narcos' drug lord pleads not guilty over DEA agent's killing

    News
    World
    1 Mar 2025
    This image from 2016, released by the FBI, shows the wanted poster for Rafael Caro Quintero.

    Rafael Caro Quintero denied charges of murder, kidnapping related to the 1985 killing of a Drug Enforcement Administration agent.

    Mexican drug lord appears before US judge, pleads not guilty to murder, kidnapping charges in DEA agent’s 1985 killing
  • Dairy without the cow? Auckland food-tech startup explains how

    News
    New Zealand food
    26 Feb 2025
    Daisy Lab - Emily McIsaac

    It is NZ's most profitable export industry, but also one of our biggest carbon emitters - so what if the cow, and methane, could be taken out of the production process altogether? Audio

    Dairy without the cow? Auckland food-tech startup explains how
  • Sharing the finer things - NZ's wine ambassador to China

    News
    Country rural
    21 Feb 2025
    Fang Mei fell in love with wine while working as a banker. She now grows her own grapes, has launched her own label, and represents several New Zealand brands in China.

    Fang Mei's love of wine was sparked by the New Zealand tradition of Friday drinks and the discovery that she had a good palate. Now she has her own vineyard in Martinborough and educates people in…

    Country Life: Sino-vino ties - wine-lover links China and New Zealand
  • The 'bulldozer' of a bill set to change gene editing laws

    News
    Politics The Detail
    20 Feb 2025
    Genetic modification is already in New Zealand, but the Gene Technology Bill would change how the technology is regulated.

    Changes are coming to gene editing laws. Whether they'll help future-proof our economy or ruin New Zealand's international reputation is up for debate.

    The 'bulldozer' of a bill set to change gene editing laws
  • Auckland's trash is another town's treasure

    News
    New Zealand The Detail
    19 Feb 2025
    Ecogas co-founder Andrew Fisher standing next to a pile of food waste at the company's Papakura plant

    Ecogas is New Zealand's only plant of its kind processing food waste. Its co-founder says that's embarrassing.

    Auckland's trash is another town's treasure
  • Regenerative Wine Farming

    Audio 14 Feb 2025
    People with long Covid have reported a loss of smell and taste and distortions of smells and tastes.

    The art of growing great soil. Dr Jamie Goode is a wine writer with a PHD in plant biology. He spoke to Jesse. Audio

  • China hits back with tariffs on US goods after Trump imposes new levies

    News
    World
    4 Feb 2025
    (FILES) US President Donald Trump speaks to the press after signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC on January 31, 2025. Trump is imposing steep tariffs on major US trading partners Canada, Mexico and China, with a lower rate on Canadian energy imports, said the White House on February 1, 2025. Washington will impose a 25 percent levy on imports from Canada and Mexico, with a 10 percent rate on Canadian energy resources, until both work with the United States on drug trafficking and immigration. Goods from China, said the White House, would face 10 percent tariffs.

    China has slapped tariffs on US imports in a swift response to new US duties on Chinese goods, renewing a trade war between the world's top two economies.

    China hits back with tariffs on US goods after Donald Trump imposes new levies
  • Trudeau says Trump has paused Canada tariffs

    News
    World politics
    4 Feb 2025
    Donald Trump and Justin Trudeau.

    The Canadian prime minister also announced his country would list drug cartels as "terrorists" and increase its border patrol budget.

    Justin Trudeau says Donald Trump will pause Canada tariffs for at least 30 days
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