A Southland catchment group is starting its latest project to balance environmental and economic sustainability through innovative on-farm change.

The hop growing cooperative’s new variety has been in the works for 10 years and is expected to “create a frenzy”, its general manager says.

Reuben Alabaster has become the youngest shearer to set a world record, which had gone unchallenged for almost 11 years.

A district council says the proposed agricultural emissions pricing scheme disregards the importance of the primacy sector.

Most couples get one wedding cake in a lifetime; Annette Dudley’s eight pet sheep get one almost every day of the week.

A wallaby found on in a small town on the northern border of Taranaki is no match for the local butcher – who says he’s not opposed to adding wallaby sausages to his menu.

The couple behind one of Taranaki’s first self-service raw milk stops is shutting up shop to spend more time with their grandchildren.