Rural
Cover Story
Mesh cover laid over potato crops is proving effective in controlling potato pests and reducing potato blight without chemical sprays. Audio
Cover Story
Mesh cover laid over potato crops is proving effective in controlling potato pests and reducing potato blight without chemical sprays.
AudioRegional Wrap
The country's largest on-farm deer sale was held on High Peak Station, Mid Canterbury, this week and Edgecumbe farms are swamped. Much of the rest of the North Island is sodden too. Audio
Helping Hand
Bay of Plenty farmer Mike Mexted considers himself very lucky. He only has surface flooding on his farm and has been able to take in cows from an inundated dairy property a few kilometres away at… Audio
Helping Hand
Bay of Plenty farmer Mike Mexted considers himself very lucky. He only has surface flooding on his farm and has been able to take in cows from an inundated dairy property a few kilometres away at…
AudioFull Episode for Friday April 7, 2017
Awahou Stream Care Group, Potato Mesh Charles Merfield, Mike Mexted. Audio
Full Episode for Friday April 7, 2017
Awahou Stream Care Group, Potato Mesh Charles Merfield, Mike Mexted.
AudioFarmers rush to protect stock from flooding
Edgecumbe farmers raced into action today to help others whose properties had been been isolated or swamped in floodwaters. Zac Fleming reports. Video, Audio
Maori spearhead first of its kind geothermal milk plant
Seven Māori trusts and entities are throwing their resources behind a whole new milk processing plant in Kawerau, which will create 30 jobs. Kawerau Dairy will be the country's first geothermally… Audio
Flooded Whakatane farm: 'We're all just stuck'
A farm stretching along the banks of the bursting Whakatane River is under water, a herd of 400 cows is stranded and a farm worker is cut off by floodwaters.
Loraine Jayme sentenced to home detention for Filipino visa fraud
Loraine Jayme, 36, charged Filipino migrants more than $2000 each to obtain temporary work visas to work on dairy farms.
