In 1904, Miss Katie Fraser, the headmistress of a girls college in the riverside town, Wanganui, returned from visiting her sister on a mission station...
Geoff and Gill Brann planted their first trees on their 242ha farm, Roydon Downs, near Te Puke for soil conservation reasons but over the 45...
The Birchalls are dairy farmers involved in a number of water quality initiatives on their farm
Listed company Comvita has developed Medihoney products which promote wound healing because of the anti-bacterial properties of high unique manuka factor (UMF) honeys. The patented...
Eutrophication of Rotorua lakes is caused in part by farming operations in the catchment. Modelling studies have estimated that 70% of nitrogen and 40% of...
The Agricultural Research Group on Sustainability (ARGOS) is an unincorporated joint venture between the Agribusiness Group, Lincoln University, and the University of Otago.It started back...
The Upper Taieri area receives as little as 350 mm annual rainfall and so irrigation is crucial to farm viability. Taieri waterways also support an...
While others in the merino industry are retrenching or looking for a new ways of marketing wool some are still hard at work developing...
This is the story of the work being done by HortResearch, and a privately owned company, Nevis to breed late season apricots to get them...
Criffel Station is a big South Island high country deer farm with 13,000 stock units on 2000ha at the iconic centre of the New Zealand...
This is the story of the process of setting up a new vineyard and taking the risky plunge into boutique wine production. It is the...
Crops including wheat, barley, sweetcorn, squash and peas are grown on Neil and Gwen Whites 555ha Ludlow Farm, in a seven-year rotation including two years...
Romney New Zealand is out to help the breed reclaim the centre stage in the sheep industry. Among the measures adopted is a new venture...
A group of scientists has been working with growers on the East Coast to help them develop appropriate strategies for small-scale organic vegetable production and...
The Martinborough region is renowned for its Pinot Noir wines. Here, small to medium wine companies are the major players, turning challenging growing conditions into...
Professor Tom Barry leads a team at Massey University looking at drought-resistant plants and alternative food sources.Using the scientific definition from Niwa in the last...
John Bostock was the first New Zealand grower to embrace organic production on a commercial export basis due to international demand for clean, healthy, and...
Rob and Debbie Wilson have a diverse and sustainable farming business in Central Hawkes Bay: with 40% beef, 40% organic apples & pears, deer 15%...
The pine posts used to support grapevines in New Zealand vineyards have a couple of weaknesses; they break easily and are treated with toxic copper...
In 2004 a meeting of farmers in the Starborough-Flaxbourne area, concerned at reducing rainfall, increasing erosion and falling profitability, set up a soil conservation group....
Roger: Welcome back. My guest this week is Chief Executive of New Zealand Landcare Trust, Dr Nick Edgar. Nick, thanks for joining us.Nick: Good morning...
The aquaculture industry tackles an invasive marine pest
Waitui, in the outer Marlborough Sounds, is extremely remote with the nearest towns of Picton and Havelock over two hours drive away. However, Noel and...
Aquaflow Bionomic Corporation (ABC) wants to be the first company in the world to economically produce biofuel from wild algae harvested from open-air environments, to...
Steve MacKenzie is a crop and beef farmer with 350 ha near Wairau Valley township.He is chairman of a trust is seeking to set up...
Corbans Viticulture is one of the largest dedicated viticulture nurseries in the country, supplying grafted grapevines to the wine industry. The company has a long...
Max Purnell was a dairy farmer, now raises dry stock. His interest in improving soil has spanned at least two decades, and he has farmed...
About DairyBaseDairyBase is a secure, web-based tool for dairy farmers to analyse their financial performance. It helps keep farmers focussed on optimising farm profitability. Dairy...
Enzo Bettios family are Italian in origin but lived for several generations in Switzerland. Enzo grew up into the family business, which was largely to...
This project focuses on protection of biodiversity/native vegetation on private land as part of good sustainable land management. It is a good news story that...
A fourth generation farmer on the Clevedon coast, Callum McCallum has diversified into acquaculture in order to stay on the land. These days he produces...
Russell Welsh started looking to develop a few more characteristics into his Romney flock back in 1997. He wanted higher fertility, better milking ability, better...
The Grays farm at Owaka, in Southland, comprises three blocks: the original family farm of 248 ha, fairly steep and exposed to the south; another...
Clifton WoolN Things is found in a barn on the historic Otago Peninsula property of Pat and Ian Robertson. For 30 years, it has sold...
Waianiwa Pastoral is a recent large-scale dairy conversion in central Southland, organised by AGInvest, of Feilding, which forms farm syndicates of investors with an equity...
The Wishart gene is the latest in a stable of four sheep prolificacy genes investigated by scientists at AgResearchs Invermay campus, near Dunedin.Scientist, Dr George...
Fonterra's milk-payout announcements have fuelled an unprecedented demand for farms for conversion, in particular, and equity partnerships are becoming more common. Dairy Trust ( Talleys...
The Nilsons were leasing a tobacco, maize and cattle farm in Zimbabwe that they hoped to buy, when they were forcibly evicted. Zimbabwe- born Kim...
Doug and Sally Lane are featured in a recently published booklet, Farming with Native Trees, a Guide for Farmers from Northland to Waikato, as inspirational...
On the 29 March Northland had a rain bomb that caused widespread damage, severe in certain localities. Approximately 400mm of rain fell in the Hikurangi...
