Rural

Precision-bred trees will be central to our economy as wood-based products replace plastic and glass fibre in laptop cases, car interiors and even aeroplanes, a molecular geneticist says.

Chris Thorn has combined his love of hunting and curing wild meats into a business that produces venison salami from locally shot deer; unpicking the DNA of pine trees with Scion and biological…

A potato farmer who built his own radio site to provide broadband to his property has just won a government contract to provide wireless internet to the King Country.

Streams less than a metre wide and 30cm deep in flat pasture accounts for 77 percent of contamination in rivers, new research shows.

Inspectors found more than 45 dead sheep, some had been there for up to six months and had worms - one with 25,500 worm eggs.

Foreign investment in forestry is crucial and New Zealand could never afford to buy back all the forests it has sold, the Forest Owners Association says.

The Hawkes Bay apple industry is negotiating with Napier's port over two proposed levies the sector says could cost it millions of dollars.

The country's biggest sheep meat processor Alliance is calling for more merino farmer suppliers for its Silere brand, as Asian demand for the meat grows.

Nelson Marlborough Health is investigating two cases of salmonella gastroenteritis among farm workers in the Murchison area.