Farming

This week Country Life meets a farmer who's been on a 35-year quest to breed the perfect cashmere goat.. a chat with a dirtbike enduro champion who's helping farm workers ride their two wheelers…

New Zealand honey company Comvita is looking at cutting jobs and slashing production amid lower sales and weak demand from Chinese consumers.

A Treasury letter shows total funding for the Accelerating New Mitigations Programme was reduced by $48 million, while the government claims emissions research has been boosted under its watch.

A South Wairarapa riverside farm is turning into a rich classroom, offering lessons in science and the environment, maths, language, and legends of the land.

David Shaw has been on a 35-year goat fibre journey on his farm in South Otago. It began with 50 multi-coloured feral goats and now, through selective breeding, he runs 700 creamy white goats and…

Four of the country's champion endurance motorbike riders are offering lessons around the country on how to ride farm bikes safely. They're hoping the fundraiser will help them get to Spain in October…

MPI staff are on Friday back at a farm where winter grazing practices were so bad seven cows had to be euthanised last month.

A Chatham Islands farmer says the return of a long-awaited cargo ship is a light at the end of the tunnel.

Dairy giant Fonterra is proposing cutting jobs at its Waikato headquarters as it outsources labour to overseas.