Farming

Methven farmer Hamish Marr is proud to showcase farmers' and growers' innovations to overseas governments "and anyone else who is buying our products". 

Wayne Hall, general manager of Wi Pere Trust's horticulture team in Gisborne, shares his love of persimmons and a recipe for how to best enjoy the fruit.

This week the Country Life team introduces us to New Zealand's agricultural trade envoy, Hamish Marr. Cosmo visits his family's arable farm near Methven... and demand for tropical fruit trees like…

The ban on imports to New Zealand will be reviewed in seven days. Audio

The state-owned company is facing falling livestock prices, high interest rates and the ongoing costs of Cyclone Gabrielle.

Pine trees are an important part of the economy, but planting whole farms with pine trees could have flow-on impacts in regional towns, Federated Farmers says.

A farmer began putting wool under her vines six years ago and it's had great benefits.

Tomatoes NZ is calling for a ban on all tomatoes from Australia, to stop a virus entering the country and decimating Aotearoa's crops. Audio

Rivers and lakes could be cleaned up and profits still generated for landowners by converting sheep and beef farms to pine trees, new research says.

More than 100 new weeds have been added to the Department of Conservation's list of environmental threats.