Rural

Many North Island areas received good volumes of welcome rain last weekend, some dairy herds are being dried off and the South Island feijoas, apples and kiwifruit are filling Tasman's cool stores. Audio

Farmers and software design boffins are getting together this weekend to find solutions to farming problems. Audio

The Government may end up asking farmers to contribute $30,000 each towards the cost of eradicating mycoplasma bovis - 40 percent of the estimated $1 billion it will cost. Video, Audio

Early estimates suggest dairy farmers might end up paying about 30 thousand dollars each if the Government gets its way on the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis. Audio

Federated Farmers have produced figures that show dairy and beef cattlemen should pay as little as 12.8 percent of the costs of eliminating Mycoplasma bovis.

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Havelock North residents living near a smelly mushroom farm say they've been let down by both the district and regional councils which have allowed the farm to get away with breaching its resource… Video, Audio

Government Ministers are thrashing out the costs of fighting Mycoplasma Bovis, in a grinding series of meetings with dairy and cattlemen.  Audio

Dairy prices have fallen in the latest global auction overnight. Audio

The massive sinkhole, or tomo, which runs along a fault-line at a Tumunui farm, is about 200 metres long, 30 metres wide and 20 metres deep. Farm manager Colin Tremain tells Alex Perrottet all about… Video, Audio

The listed kiwifruit and avocado grower, Seeka, has whittled down its foreign ownership, to avoid scrutiny by the Overseas Investment Office.  Audio