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Roger Partridge: Productive land law ignores opportunity cost

Were economists involved in drafting National Policy Statement for Highly Productive Land?

Barbara Kuriger: Food and fibre has a strong future despite the challenges

Farmers and growers have made good progress towards NZ's environmental goal.

Fonterra cuts milk price forecast to $9.25/kg

Fonterra has cut its milk price forecast to a mid-point of $9.25/kg.

Exercising rural women's right to mental wellbeing

Happiness Editor Matt Heath talks to Kate Ivey.

Raw milk raids: Largest supplier in the country fined

Ironically, publicity of the raids actually increased Lindsay Farm's customer base.

How New Zealand's climate fight is threatening farmland

New York Times: Investors are rushing to buy up pastures and plant carbon-sucking trees.

Angry Dutch farmers vow to cause more protest chaos than ever

The govt sparked fury with plan to curb livestock numbers to meet climate change targets.

'Huge upfront payment': Kāinga Ora's $70m farm land grab trumped private sector offers

The housing agency failed to price risk in the land purchase.

Government and Ngāi Tahu to work together on regenerative farming project

A programme will compare regenerative farming practices to conventional methods.

Climate change: He Waka Eke Noa needs 'critical' changes

The HWEN plan lets farmers pay different rates for methane and carbon dioxide emissions.

'I got one!': Adorable 3yo Kiwi farmer's sheep herding goes viral

TikTok-famous Freddie may possibly be New Zealand's youngest and keenest farmer.

Lost cows on the moo-ve through Rotokauri

Six curious cows were wandering between Lee Road and the Wintec campus.

Editorial: NZ's hard sell and painstaking gains in US and Europe

EDITORIAL: It has been Jacinda Ardern's toughest overseas trade mission yet.

National: FTA with EU a 'step forward' but agriculture 'missed opportunity'

National's trade spokesman Todd McClay gave the deal a '6 out of 10'.

Opinion: Country Calendar uproar is 'raging tall poppy syndrome'

When did progress, innovation and experimenting with different ideas become offensive?

New Zealand wins $1.8b trade deal with EU at eleventh hour

The deal took four years of often torturous negotiations.

Country Calendar uproar: Lake Hawea Station's Geoff Ross hits back at critics

Geoff Ross says trialling alternative methods is 'how sectors advance'.

Thomas Coughlan: Will Ardern get an EU trade deal tomorrow?

The PM has said she will leave without a deal if what is on the table is not good enough.