Trades training in solid skills aimed at getting students ready for work in real world.

New Zealand food prices rose at their fastest annual pace in more than six years.

Dairy's recovery will open up choices for farmers, ANZ says.

KMPG says it's time NZ's volume-based approach to agriculture changed.

ASX-listed Bellamy's Australia plans to raise $63 million from shareholders.

NZ rural businesses slow to take up new technology - survey.

Two Hamilton men have discovered a gene which allows cows to tolerate high temperatures

OANZ says $50m organic produce industry needs a national framework to expand further.

Bad weather has affected the NZ wine crop.

Better prices are likely to mean a more optimistic mood at Fieldays.

All flat oysters are to be removed from Stewart Island's Big Glory Bay

Emissions trading scheme isn't fit for purpose.

Self-resetting rat trap technology means twice the conservation work in half the time

The Whangawehi Restoration Project group is hoping for success.

Napier craft brewer delighted his special fresh hops brew gets top nod in competition.

The OIO hasn't received an application from reported buyer of Harvard's NZ dairy farms.

Ample Group in Stratford has officially reached the Chinese market.

Dairy prices inched higher at the GDT auction, rising for the sixth consecutive time.

Hawke's Bay hemp oil features in Garage Project's latest beer, Bhang Thandai.

Gold rush is gone, but industry is celebrating signs of recovery, writes Holly Ryan.

New Zealand's terms of trade rose to the highest level in about 44 years.

Singapore Airlines will serve Garage Project beer in a first for a Kiwi craft brewer.

Silver Fern Farms confirms plant closure, costing hundreds of jobs.

Supermarket initiative rescues 'ugly' produce from going to the landfill.

All go at new Paraparaumu craft beer brewery.

The NZ financial system is sound but housing remains a key risk, the central bank says.

NZH Local Focus: Karangahake Gorge mine to reopen for testing.

Synlait to buy Mangere canning plant.

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