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Germany is finally blaming sprouts for a bacteria outbreak that has left at least 30 people dead and almost 3,000 ill, and cost farmers across Europe hundreds of millions of dollars in lost sales.

Germany expects the death toll from the E.coli outbreak that has killed 27 people in Europe to rise, although new infections from the strain of bacteria are dropping.

The European Union has proposed giving at least 150 million euros to European farmers who have lost money through the E.coli crisis in Germany, but Spain and France say they want much more.

A Marlborough farmer has won this year's supreme award for enterprising rural women.

The Ministry of Agriculture's sustainable farming fund has approved 71 new grants totalling $9.5 million.

Agresearch says it is still five to 10 years away from providing practical solutions to reduce methane emissions in livestock.

A leading Maori farmer say reports into unlocking the agribusiness potential of Maori freehold land is long overdue.

The manager of a dilapidated organic farming commune on the Whitianga estuary is confident its 12 dwellings can be brought up to standard.

The Thames-Coromandel District Council is taking court action to have 14 buildings demolished on a commune in Whitanga.

Millions of worms are set to be put to work in a new large-scale composting trial that aims to recycle organic waste from the kiwifruit and timber industries, as well as from urban sources.

Te Waka Kai Ora will on Wednesday launch Hua Parakore, a tikanga based organic certification system.

The organics sector is questioning why organic and biological farming aren't included in the meat and dairy research and innovation programmes announced this week.

Rural Women New Zealand is defending an enterprise award it made to a homeopathic animal remedy business, after strong criticism from the New Zealand Skeptics group.

New technology developed at Victoria University that could help the dairy industry deal with its effluent issues is ready to be tested. A trial is to be held with the Taylor Preston meat company in…

A Waikato woman has won Rural Women New Zealand's supreme enterprise award. Tineke Verkade runs a homeopathic farm business with eight part-time employees.