To the outsider looking in, horse riders can look a bit unapproachable. I mean, they sit up there on their gleaming steeds, looking

Being a bit of a country girl at heart I love the annual A&P Show. It's a parade of all that's good about the Kiwi country life

Malcolm Lumsden was recently stopped by a lady pronouncing that "I was one of those irresponsible farmers who allowed their cows to 'pee and poo' everywhere resulting in our rivers all being polluted"

It seems implausible, in this age of worldwide connectivity and immediate access to information, that councils, district health boards

COMMENT: Is the end of the Trans-Pacific Partnership the death of open economies or just a setback, Brian Fallow writes.

COMMENT: NZ First wants public money to pay for televising significant games so they can be seen by everyone, says Winston Peters.

As mentioned recently, the so-called collaborative stakeholders' group has recently released their Sea Change report and the Waikato

After a month off, it's back to the grindstone and as usual I have to catch up with what's happened in the world over the past 4

Last week the Northland Age asked why Kaitaia is still waiting for a reliable water supply. It is a valid question, and the Far

Well, hasn't it been dry this summer? This time last year we were rejoicing in regular dollops of rain and luxuriating in the resulting

COMMENT: Not even a week into Trump's presidency, it's crystal clear that US citizens are now dealing with a fascist regime, writes Rachel Stewart.

COMMENT: A strong correlation was found between the state of the country's fish stocks and the quality of its fisheries management, writes Tim Pankhurst.

COMMENT: Bill English should act sooner rather than later if he wants to get a bilateral trade deal with the US on the table, Fran O'Sullivan writes.

The mainstream media did themselves no favours with their handling of the 'he said, she said' row between the 'Mad Butcher,' Sir Peter

The man behind Fraser Farm Finance says 'Brexit and Trumpet, like it or lump it' and he offers his State of the Nation for NZ farming in 2017.

OPINION: Medicinal marijuana - what can't it do? Now scientists believe it could help cure irritable bowel syndrome, writes

Rachel Smalley

With much sympathy for farmers battling with increasingly dry conditions, there's no escaping the fact that summer in Hawke's Bay

There has been concern in recent years about the concentration of our seed heritage into the hands of a few large multinational corporations. Very

Let's stop kidding ourselves: we are in the grip of a water crisis, and any government that fails to recognise and immediately work

I hope readers had a lovely break and enjoyed the wonderful sunshine we've had across New Zealand. I'm happy to be into 2017 which

The continued strength of the Fonterra Global Dairy Auction has given many farmers confidence that there will be an increase in milk

Just before Christmas, the Maori Party took a stand that is hugely important for Hawke's Bay. The party told Environment Minister

The Country host Jamie Mackay shares his list of things to see and do before he shuffles off this mortal coil.

I DON'T have any hard data but it seems that the incidence of stock thefts in the Whanganui and Rangitikei districts is rising. Certainly

How's the white gold flowing in Aotearoa so far in 2017? The dairy payout is back up to around $6 per kilogram of milk solids, but

For a sharemilking business to thrive, both sharemilkers and farm owners must do their homework before entering a partnership agreement

The rodeo travelling circus is well under way. Competitors and animals are now on the road, taking animal torture to venues all over

In the late 1940s my father came down from the East Coast to be a shepherd on Omakere Station in Central Hawke's Bay. Part of the

With 2016 being such an up-and-down year for farmers, here's hoping the new year will bring better news on demand and prices. The

Napier regional councillor Paul Bailey is right about one thing - the major problems facing the region must be shared responsibilities