A tour operator didn’t have permission to be in the rural station where the crash happened, the station’s owner says.

Farming isn’t an area that has interested “Silicon Valley types” until recently, but food is an enormous market.

A regional farming president says tax reforms will use farmers like ATMs to pay for the “useless”.

The Hayward family, who farm 1700 hectares of land across the Timaru district describe their goal as “to give our children the same opportunity to farm that we were given”.

In our determination to ensure such a tragedy never happens again we must all willingly accept the loss of some freedoms.

A $24 million upgrade to a rural South Canterbury water scheme will be funded by those connected to it.

A $24 million upgrade to a rural South Canterbury water scheme will be funded by those connected to it.

Fruit and vegetable restrictions have been lifted in two Auckland suburbs after weeks with no further evidence of fruit flies.

A drought could be declared in Waikato.

The Overseas Investment Office will not take Agria’s wrongdoing further, following a High Court case.