Public articles

Paul Burt shares his thoughts on a man of Te Urewera bush, who spent his life combating the region’s introduced pest species with economic opportunity.

A group of New Zealand farming and agribusiness people is bidding to buy an iconic central North Island station to stop it being planted in permanent exotic forest.

The government seems to be pushing as much controversial legislation through as possible before next year’s election.

A nearly five-year study of farm dogs in the South Island has given owners and vets a lot to chew on. Annabelle Latz reports.

Flooring is not the only future use for New Zealand’s coarse wools. Annabelle Latz writes.

Drought alternating with extreme wet weather has prompted a Golden Bay couple to adopt a mixed pasture regime on their lease blocks. By Anne Hardie.

More profitable alternative enterprises may be accommodated if replacement stock are bought or grazed off farm, Tom Ward writes.

An equity partnership that allowed a father and son to farm has finished, but the winning Wairarapa pair are still farming. By Terry Brosnahan. Photos by Mark Coote.

Vet Trevor Cook has been visiting Scotland and Denmark, catching up on changes to farm practices.

In the first in a series on Mycoplasma bovis (M bovis), ag scientist Nicola Dennis traces the history of New Zealand’s outbreak and some of the lessons.