Farming

New research has uncovered the earliest - and unlikely - place kūmara was cultivated in Polynesia.

A Hawke's Bay sheep, beef and deer station damaged during Cyclone Gabrielle will be planted into rotational forestry.

A former pupil of Tararua College has smashed a record beyond the scope of any scholastic dreams, by becoming the first woman in the world to shear 700 sheep in a nine-hour day.

New figures from Stats NZ show Māori farms are much larger than the average New Zealand farm and run a lot more stock.

Eastern Bay of Plenty dairy farmer Shannon Munro says she could lose up to $150,000 for the year, following the recent Fonterra has cut its new season payout for the second time in

Through the "beautiful wet season" that Mohi Beckham calls the past 18-months, most of the paddocks were underwater on the coastal Bay of Plenty farm which he manages.

'People made fun of me following the maramataka for growing,' says Otamarakau dairy farmer Mohi Beckham