1+ day, 9+ hour ago  (659+ words) There’s never a boring moment on Cloudy Peaks Station, where a full-circle farm-to-consumer journey is leading the way in value-add agriculture. Moving to Cloudy Peaks in south Canterbury’s Mackenzie Country after her partner Mark Baynes took up the stock manager’s…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (405+ words) The European Commission has reversed a decade-long policy approach that was lowering farmed livestock numbers with a new strategy that encourages their farming. The new strategy acknowledges Europe’s historic and social role of farming livestock, the need for food security,…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago  (630+ words) By Ke-Xin Li of RNZ The mix of two minces is picking up in popularity as customers look for alternatives to pricey beef. Bolognese, shepherd’s pie or just savoury mince on toast – Kiwis love to cook with mince, but the…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (266+ words) An outstanding, high-performing pastoral unit in a prime Mid Canterbury foothills location, celebrated for its reliability, productivity, and sweeping mountain vistas. Lincoln Fields is a highly regarded, turnkey pastoral unit combining balance, resilience with the ideal scale to support dairy…...

3+ day, 8+ hour ago  (367+ words) A new app, StockScore, has been designed to simplify body condition scoring, giving sheep, beef and deer farmers a way to record and analyse livestock condition data directly in the yards. Created by central Otago veterinarian, farmer and agri-entrepreneur Becks…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (533+ words) A love of animals, numbers and models is bringing personal and career rewards for Brazilian researcher Dr Amelia Almeida, and delivering better insights on livestock greenhouse gas emissions to the farmers she works with. Almeida is three years into her…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (760+ words) Packing up a young family and travelling New Zealand in a caravan to work on farms isn’t your conventional road to farm ownership, but Anastasia and Hayden Tristram have never been afraid to think outside the square. In October, the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (243+ words) The Hawke’s Bay orchards of NZ Rural Land Company are leased to Kiwi Crunch and its owner/operator Wade Glass, now in receivership. The company has reported that those leases account for approximately 5.8% of Rural Land rental income, but it…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (447+ words) Dairy exporters say the National Party’s election pledge to pursue a diverse set of new trade negotiations shouldn’t come at the expense of making the most of existing agreements. The countries targeted by National for talks within five years should…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (424+ words) Otago Southland Young Farmer Tom Slee has been crowned the 2026 FMG Young Farmer of the Year after winning the Grand Final in New Plymouth, the first time the event has been held in the region. The 29-year-old dairy farmer claimed…...