Farming

The last remaining farm with cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis has been cleared of cattle, but it doesn't mean the end of the eradication effort.

New Zealand livestock has a top-class reputation internationally. Exports by sea are banned, so how else do we send animals offshore?

AgResearch is teaming up with regional councils and Rural Contractors New Zealand to collate information on alligator weed in a bid to better understand its spread.

Westland Milk Products is to invest $70 million to expand its manufacturing of dairy protein lactoferrin.

Fonterra has opened a new application centre in China which will look at adding dairy products like milk, cream, butter and even cream cheese into beverages.

Scientists are researching how "jumping genes" can be used to develop more robust pinot noir grapes that still have an iconic New Zealand flavour. Dr Ross Bicknell and Dr Philippa Barrell from Plant…

Stopbanks have "strangled" South Westland's Wanganui River so much over decades the riverbed is now filling with gravel at twice the natural rate, an engineer says.

Former Wellington mayor Celia Wade-Brown lives in a tiny off-grid house and regenerates native forest on a former sheep and beef farm on the flanks of the Tararua mountain range. The carbon…