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News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

Dairy farmers have overwhelmingly voted to sell their 150-year-old dairy co-operative, Westland Milk Products, to a Chinese company. But despite signing off on the deal, many of the 350 shareholders… Video, Audio

Emotions are expected to run high today as hundreds of West Coast dairy farmers vote on whether to sell their 150-year-old co-operative to a Chinese buyer.

Farmers say mismanagement of the company… Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

The Agriculture Minister has strongly implied to farming leaders the sector will be brought into the emissions trading scheme. Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

The Prime Minister has told farmers she will try to minimise the social and economic impacts any new environmental legislation could have on them. Audio

Federated Farmers is warning people not to take the rise in dairy sector emissions out of context. Audio

Improved sentiment among sheep and beef farmers and horticulturalists has caused a slight lift in rural confidence, according to Rabobank's latest quarterly survey. Audio

A new scheme is being launched that will allow customers to know where their eggs came from. Audio

The board of Westland Milk Products has been criticised by the Agriculture Minister, for urging farmer-shareholders to give up their ownership in a flawed process. Audio

The Minister for Climate Change issues thinks extending greenhouse gas credits to farmers for supplementary tree planting is possible but will take a lot of work. Audio

Federated Farmers hopes a new scheme to help farmers in financial distress will improve the management of the whole problem of debt. Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

News from the rural and farming sector. Audio

Farmers from all over the country are flocking to Mystery Creek near Hamilton for National Agricultural Fieldays this week.

This year is the 51st Fieldays and about 130,000 people are expected to… Audio