The Feds say: Is your water up to quality?
Consumers are demanding more traceability when it comes to what we eat but, as illustrated by the incident in Havelock North recently
Consumers are demanding more traceability when it comes to what we eat but, as illustrated by the incident in Havelock North recently
Dom takes on some ill-informed keyboard warriors in this week's Furious George.
Clean drinking water is something most of us take for granted in New Zealand - or at least we did until the shocking outbreak of gastric
During the year of 2011 the Healthy Populations team for the Hawke's Bay District Health Board at that time developed their Strategic
Heading into a third year of low prices, questions have to be asked whether the dairy industry is on a false path. If so, where is the path back to firm ground?
There was a presidential-style entrance and a standing ovation as Winston Peters turned up to speak in Dannevirke recently. Ron Mark
We need to move past the blame game and seek meaningful and lasting answers, says William Rolleston.
Co-operatives need a new, dynamic business model, says Ruth Richardson.
Have you ever slipped your hand inside a cow having difficulty calving, felt two large front feet, and thought 'I'm going to need
Dr Doug Edmeades writes of his fondness for the mighty Fergie 28.
Martin Williams (Talking Point, August 12), overlooked my full support for dams and water storage and focused on his novel version
The Country's Jamie Mackay reminisces about a night he spent in the company of sporting heroes Dick Tayler and Sir Colin Meads.
It's cold, wet and miserable out there, as I write, and a chilly wind blows as a dozen calves daily plop into the mud, Mother Nature
Local communities pitching in has made a world of difference to people affected by the recent snowstorm in north-west Hawke's Bay
Sports commentator Paul Allison has some fascinating Olympic tales. Dom George rips them off wholesale in this week's column.
COMMENT: There is little NZ can do about high dollar or inflation.
Council and resource management processes are a complicated, foreign and uninviting process for many. However, it is critical farmers
All dairy farmers should know by now they will be facing new regulations to manage the welfare of bobby calves this season. They
Parliament must make an urgent stand to defend local democracy. Our elected representatives must not give the Government sweeping
Dom George scores an own goal watching too much Olympic coverage rather than doing his job.
Last year, the shiny suits and directors at Silver Fern Farms (SFF) said the co-op was in crisis and faced receivership or liquidation. They
COMMENT: Here are some of the life lessons Byron Wien has learned in his first 80 years.
It's hard not to be impressed by the intellectual and technological grunt going into horticultural industry, Barry Soper writes.
The Country's Jamie Mackay is flexing his creative muscles with a clever Agricultural ABC poem.
COMMENT: Getting rid of that big debt involves paying more, more often.
Martin Williams' comment in his 'Talking Point' (August 1) "What we do on land, matters in our rivers and in the sea" makes good sense
What a month of wet weather we've had. Hopefully things will warm up and dry a bit so management can be a bit easier through lambing
Kiwirail's treatment of farmers while it implements a new charging regime was the source of aggravation at Federated Farmers National
Federated Farmers believes rural-zoned land should be used for rural purposes, and other land uses should not infringe on primary
Dom George pays tribute to 'understated yet hugely renowned Andrew James Duncan Laing.'