Rural
Meat Bryan Harris
A love of meat runs in the Harris family. The family opened its first butchery in Cheviot, North Canterbury 60 years ago. These days Harris Meats is an independent abattoir and meat processing… Audio
Meat Bryan Harris
A love of meat runs in the Harris family. The family opened its first butchery in Cheviot, North Canterbury 60 years ago. These days Harris Meats is an independent abattoir and meat processing…
AudioWagyu grower eyes juicy foreign markets
An update on how the more specialist meat breed Wagyu is doing in New Zealand. Wagyu is a traditional Japanese breed which is known for its fat-marbled meat. Firstlight Foods, the only commercial… Audio
Wagyu grower eyes juicy foreign markets
An update on how the more specialist meat breed Wagyu is doing in New Zealand. Wagyu is a traditional Japanese breed which is known for its fat-marbled meat. Firstlight Foods, the only commercial…
AudioBleeding Blighters
Five hundred barber's pole worms can kill a sheep. They suck so much of the animal's blood that when you cut its throat, it doesn't bleed. Sheep farmer Gordon Levet has spent a lifetime breeding sheep… Audio
Bleeding Blighters
Five hundred barber's pole worms can kill a sheep. They suck so much of the animal's blood that when you cut its throat, it doesn't bleed. Sheep farmer Gordon Levet has spent a lifetime breeding sheep…
AudioRegional Wrap
Welcome rain has been falling in coastal Wairarapa and crops are going in in Canterbury. Audio
DoC says today's 1080 drop is within the rules
The Department of Conservation and health officials have moved to reassure the public that 1080 poison drops on the West Coast today are being done safely and are within the rules. Video, Audio
Silver Fern Farms pulls out of merino meat project
Silver Fern Farms is pulling out of a five-year project to market merino sheep meat under the Silere brand.
Fonterra raises payout forecast after dairy prices rise again
Fonterra has raised its forecast payout to farmers by 50 cents to $5.25 a kilo of milk solids, after another rise in dairy prices this morning.
Self-resetting rat traps 20 times better than standard traps -study
Self-resetting rat traps are 20 times more effective at killing the pests than standard traps, a new study has shown.
Milk silo collapse, chemical spill lead to investigation
WorkSafe is investigating Fonterra's Edendale dairy factory after two emergencies there within a month.
