Rural

Yoshiaki and Kyoko Sato refuse to add anything to their wine. The former Tokyo bankers now live in Central Otago where they craft wines from only organically grown grapes. Audio

The country's transformed in the past week from cruisy autumn to wet and cold. Kiwifruit harvesting still has a long way to go. Audio

Jakob Malmo is a vet working in Gippsland, Australia and says M. Bovis must be very carefully managed but farmers there have learned to live with it. Audio

Horse Power, Training Trees, Wine Making the Natural Way, Living with Mycoplasma Bovis and the Regional Wrap. Audio

Vet Mark Bryan has witnessed Mycoplasma bovis first-hand. Conan Young talked to him about eradication versus management and began by asking what he thought about the way MPI had handled the situation.

Wilma Van Leuuwen, who owns the farm where the first confirmed outbreak of Mycoplasma bovis was found, says MPI has been slow, uncoordinated and under-prepared in its response to the disease. Audio

Waikato farmer Henk Smit told 600 farmers in Cambridge today that a herd he co-owns is the first in the region to have Mycoplasma bovis. Audio

More details are emerging of the impact of Mycoplasma bovis on cows as consultations reach crunch point on what to do about the disease. Audio

Federated Farmers, DairyNZ and Beef + Lamb NZ say they are close to a consensus on their agreed position but are seeking more information in a call with government ministers today - ahead of the a… Audio

To contain or to eradicate - that is the question for a last-chance meeting on Mycoplasma bovis to be held today. Federated Farmers, Dairy New Zealand, and Beef and Lamb will have one final… Audio

Wrangling over what to do about the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis is going down to the wire.  

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Compensation for farmers and sharemilkers who have lost money over Mycoplasma bovis "has taken too long" to pay out, MPI's director of response and readiness Geoff Gwyn says. Video, Audio

A rural midwife says she's spent $11,000 on petrol in the last year and faces a bigger bill this year as fuel prices skyrocket. There are warnings the worst is yet to come. Audio

Mary and Sarel Potgieter were the first people in New Zealand to blow the whistle on Mycoplasma bovis. Mary tells John Campbell they haven't been compensated and are now living off their credit cards… Video, Audio

Latest figures from Statistics New Zealand confirm record exports of Kiwifruit. Audio

Randall Aspinall is owner and manager of Mount Aspiring Station. He tells Kathryn Ryan the increasing numbers of tourists walking on tracks which cross his land are costing him time and money. He's… Audio