PhD students told: 'Take a break, pick fruit'
Foreign doctoral students advised to take a 'holiday' and pick fruit.
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Act leader David Seymour talks to courgette producer Brett Heap
Act leader David Seymour met with courgette producer Brett Heap at Waipapa in Northland to talk about harvest struggles with New Zealand's border closures putting a halt to foreign agricultural workers. Video / David Fisher
'Local workers lack stamina': Courgette grower to David Seymour
The courgette harvest crisis has taken Act leader David Seymour from town to the country.
Local Focus: Our paddocks of discontent and the future of feedlots
Farm rules for winter feeding are changing. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Sustainable Finance: Environmentalists at heart
Rabobank is looking at lower costfarmer loans with environmental milestones built in.
Live animal export ban lifts but SAFE wants total ban on livestock shipments
The number of animals which can be loaded on a ship will be capped.
MPI to toughen live animal export rules
A report commissioned after the Gulf Livestock 1's sinking finds improvements can be made.
Simon Wilson: No point in Greens being a poodle hoping to be thrown a bone
The parties of the left have a greater goal than coalition and different ways to reach it.
Local Focus: The ice choppers of Hawke's Bay
Hawke's Bay frost control from above. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Farmers want Labour to govern alone - Fed Farmers
Mid Canterbury president David Clark said farmers are worried about the future.
Federated Farmers want Labour to govern alone
Farmers are anxious to see if Labour forms a government with or without the Greens.
Mooving on: 190 cows need new homes after animal shelter failure
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No pay rises for the Fonterra top table
Fonterra to hold the line on governors' pay this year.
Jacinda Ardern's day of crowds, consensus - and confronting farmers
The mob got a little pushy yesterday - and farmers were among those wanting a word.
Three years after Waikato protest, have farmers' views changed?
Four farmers who took to the streets in 2017 grade the Labour-led govt's performance.
New hope in search for Kiwis after possible 'signs of life' on remote island
Kiwis Lochie Bellerby and Scott Harris are among the missing 40 crew members.
'They can't put us all in jail': Farmers rally against water regulations
Farmers stage protest at the Gore A&P Showgrounds.
Local Focus: Who is Ian McKelvie, National Party candidate for Rangitīkei?
Old school candidate for Rangitīkei. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
Record year for Waikato's Tatua dairy company
Tatua dairy farmers are again the envy of the sector.
Central Hawke's Bay farmer's death: 'We are just so sad at the tragic loss'
'Police pass on our deepest sympathies to his family and friends.'
Moment In Crime: Death on duty - cops killed on frontline
Episode 11 of A Moment In Crime podcast looks at NZ police officers killed while on duty
Go country: Farm stays for the school holidays
For a dose of the good life, take yourselves and the family on an epic country get-away.
Election 2020: Judith Collins and the art of cheeky misdirection
Collins and Ardern offered very different visions and styles on the West Coast yesterday.
Fixing Fonterra: Co-op's CEO chalking up wins as it rebuilds credibility
New CEO hopes he's provided "a bit of clarity" for Fonterra on its turnaround mission.
Farm land bill row: Minister hits back
An outline of what the Crown Pastoral Land Reform Bill actually does and doesn't do.
MP defends posting false Ardern quote
The post altered a response about farmers made by Ardern in debate with Judith Collins.
His Te Mata Peak Rd fence is a vehicle magnet. It's costing him thousands
"We have never received a penny in reparations for fixing the fences."
Local Focus: Should farmers avoid paying for their pollution? Whanganui candidates argue it out
Candidates on farming and greenhouse gases. Made with funding from NZ On Air.
'Don't know why she'd say such foolish statements': Collins hits back
Collins says National always intended making changes to Zero Carbon Act if it won power.
Editorial: Time for a rethink on live cattle exports
Editorial: Exporting cash cows for a tidy profit raises ethical and economic questions.
Missing cattle export ship: 'There is every possibility that they are alive'
Family members still cling to hope the men missing from the Gulf Livestock 1 are alive.
Tractor involved in fatal farm accident near Maraekakaho
One person has died in a workplace accident near Hastings.
Watch: Rural Issues Debate hosted by Heather du Plessis-Allan
The debate will focus on rural issues and the topics that affect the vast percentage of the New Zealand population that does not live in a major city center.