Rebecca Greaves

Editor - Country-Wide


Feeding calves

On-Farm Research at the Poukawa Research Farm did much pioneering research on calf rearing from the mid 1990s, rearing about 8000 calves across a wide range of…


Importance of colostrum

Failure of calves to get sufficient colostrum and acquire early immunity is a world-wide problem, Paul Muir writes.


Post-election options

Opposition parties have ideas about what they’d do with Landcorp should there be a change of government in October. By Jo Cuttance.


Watch the live Q&A with soil educator Nicole Masters and Sarah Perriam-Lampp

Internationally renowned soil educator, Nicole Masters, will be back in New Zealand this November for a Soil Resilience Tour, consisting of two in-depth…


Who was our best Ag Minister?

Based on their performance, we want to know who you think was the best - past or present - NZ agriculture (and primary industries) minister.


Good worms

Clinical trials by the Malaghan Institute have shown that hookworms may be helpful for managing severe inflammatory and allergic diseases in humans.


Spreading the risk

There’s no rule book on the Taggarts’ farm in North Canterbury, and they don’t mind the debt because it keeps them pushing. Story and photos by Annabelle……


Simple system, high profits

Derek and Leanne White's exceptional performance on their Waiouru farm won them the 2023 Wairere Central Districts Red Meat Farm Business of the Year award.


The case for genetic modification

New Zealanders were scared off GM back in the early 2000s, but the science has moved on since then and the calls to rethink our stand on gene-editing…