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Manuka offers farmers a sweet future

Manuka honey is making a big comeback with plans to develop a $1.2 billion honey industry.

Craig Wiggins - television needs more rural content

Craig Wiggins is at the FMG Young Farmer of the Year Grand Final. We won't see him for eight days though as it is televised next week. Wiggins is frustrated with the lack of rural content on the television in general.

Te Radar is in Timaru for the FMG Young Farmer of the Year Grand Final

Te Radar is in Timaru for day two of three at the FMG Young Farmer of the Year Grand Final, where we find the well-known New Zealander 'mooching' around.

The Country Today - Te reo and Te Radar edition

It's all about the FMG Young Farmer of the Year Grand Final today. Plus Maori Language Week, politics, weather, wool...and Metallica.

Drugs in farming: Graeme Smith of the Drug Detection Agency investigates

Graeme Smith, owner of the Waikato-Coromandel branch of the Drug Detection Agency, wades into the debate about drug use and production

Animal-spread illness on the rise

Northland farmers and possum trappers are being warned to take care around animals after a spike in cases of leptospirosis. Leptospirosis

FMG Young Farmers delayed television broadcast could be a thing of the past

It's a sin! Not only is Jamie playing the Pet Shop Boys but the FMG Young Farmer of the Year Grand Final is not on the TV until eight days after it has finished!

From Farming to the NRL: Rory Ferguson signs with the Broncos

Rory Ferguson lives on a dairy farm in Milton, South Otago but not for long - he's just been signed with the Broncos. The Country Early Edition's Dom George spoke to him today.

Furious George: You can take the girl out of the farm...

Dom's wife's love for her new pet bunny has driven the notorious curmudgeon to write a column about the history of rabbit-genocide in farming.

Family feuds an issue for farm succession

Dom George catches up with Bayleys Real Estate New Zealand Country Manager, Simon Anderson to talk about a growing concern over farm succession.

Farmers need to reconsider 'smart level' of debt

Farmers Dairy chairman Andrew Hoggard says dairy farmers need to ask themselves what a smart level of debt is given the risk profile for the next decade.

Fieldays arrives amid some pain

Big buys at annual agricultural event are likely to be lower on the shopping list for some who are hurting, especially dairy farmers.

Tougher rules around bobby calves introduced

Tougher rules around the treatment of bobby calves will start before the spring calving season, but other measures on food and shelter will be delayed until next year.

Nation of Debt: Dairy farmers dig in for winter

Very low dairy prices have so far not translated into widespread forced sales of farms, but the coming spring and summer periods will be the acid test for many.

Farmer told to stop selling raw milk

Alarm after tuberculosis-positive cow discovered at his farm.

Heartland Bank warns farm values could fall 40pc

Heartland Bank has told investors it is monitoring the dairy sector "with close attention".

NZ 'should get rid of 80pc of its cows'

Former president of Wanganui Federated Farmers says dairy farming is responsible for 80 per cent of the degradation of New Zealand waterways.

Farmers turn backs on abysmal season

Hopes are running high that the first GlobalDairyTrade (GDT) auction for 2016/17 will show an improvement in dairy prices.