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Local Focus: Shepherdess making connections

Shepherdess magazine is connecting rural women.

The great Kiwi ute: A love affair

Kurt Bayer explores just why we love our utes so much.

'Even worse than last year': Staff shortage concern ahead of apple picking season

If Covid were to start to spread in the Pacific Islands, the industry will be in trouble.

How the man from McKinsey ended up running NZ's biggest farm

Steve Carden is on the move after 8 years at the helm of state-owned Landcorp.

Best Premium stories of 2021: Dairy farmers 'didn't feel proud to be farmers anymore'

'We loved dairy farming and it was great but working 365 days a year wears you down.'

Young Bay stock trader shuns dairy - now he's counting sheep

A young Hawke's Bay farmer is on a successful path with stock breeding and sales.

Chilled meat exports get a chop as shipping dilemmas demand new thinking

Shipping woes tipped to continue for up to 18 months.

Prices ease slightly in final Global Dairy Trade auction for the year

Across the board, the index dropped 1.5 per cent - the first fall since August 3.

Jamie Mackay: 2021 in review (and a couple of awards too)

This time last year we were looking forward to a better year. Instead we got 2021.

Price of tomatoes drags down overall food prices for November

Monthly fruit and vegetable prices fell 6.7 per cent in November.

Vodafone begins shutdown of service affecting approx 8000 users

The 3G mobile booster known as Sure Signal is being retired by Vodafone.

Opinion: Why pricing emissions isn't enough

We need economists to illuminate, not to obfuscate, the difficult choices ahead.

Fonterra unit fund chair tells dairy giant to 'buy the fund out'

Fund's market capitalisation has dived by $75m.

Research aims to develop more resilient sauvignon blanc vines

Sauvignon blanc comprises 87 per cent of New Zealand's wine exports.

Hundreds of workers granted border exceptions

Technology specialists and some agricultural workers welcome from early 2022.

Sir George Fistonich files claim for damages over Villa Maria sale

It is the second claim the founder of the winery has brought against the receivers.

Farmers vote strongly in favour of Fonterra revamp

One of the biggest votes in the co-operative's history.

Seven-year high for dairy prices at latest GDT auction

The overall index increased 1.4 per cent to exceed the peak recorded in March 2014.