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Babydolls are rare, compact sheep with faces like teddy bears. They're in hot demand from orchardists and winegrowers, but they come with a hefty price-tag.

A farmer in Rangitikei says a music festival is keeping locals awake at night with its relentless bass music.

A recycling service for farmers is struggling to get pastoral farmers on board to safely dispose of plastic containers and chemicals.

A woman, her four children and her grandmother drove through flames to flee the Coromandel scrub fire that destroyed homes and an organic commune.

The scrub fire has wiped out four homes, an organic farm commune - and helicopter crews are frantically trying to stop it destroying more.

Scientists have made a discovery they say could lead to new ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from nitrogen down on the farm.

University of Auckland researchers are using tannin-rich wine waste to create safer food packaging that has antibacterial properties.

A decolonisation plebiscite on Guam that was due to be held last month is likely to be deferred to 2018. Audio

An introduced wasp species is being credited with saving the country almost half a billion dollars.

The ruptured Kēkerengū fault has revealed more secrets about New Zealand's tectonic past, and can help inform what to expect in future, scientists say.

In Vanuatu there are signs that encouraging people to eat locally produced foods are working. The government wants people to grow and eat locally produced food to help reduce non-communicable...

Analysis -The Saudi sheep deal is not the first chapter in New Zealand's on-again, off-again relationship with live sheep exports to the Middle East, writes Kim Griggs.

Yazaki Samoa says it will offer its 740 employees transitional support packages to prepare them for future careers.

Organic farmer Bev Trowbridge believes biological and organic farmers are still viewed as a bit 'whacky' in New Zealand.

Orchard waste from around Central Otago feeds millions of composting worms at Robbie Dick's worm farm in Cromwell. The worms convert tonnes of edible waste into castings manure, an organic compost…