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Opinion: With the warmer weather looming, it's time to get your soil well-fed.
Miles Hurrell: Fonterra on a mission to strengthen trade ties
OPINION: Strong trade relationships are vital to his co-op’s success.
Vege tips: Why October is sow important
OPINION: Watching the new growth appear is nature at its best.
Opinion: Why education needs investment in NZ
OPINION: NZ must sort out domestic education to ensure a supply for the workforce.
Soldier, farrier, bullock-wrangler: The untold story of Cecil Gordon Lee
Opinion: Cecil Gordon Lee's war photos resurface, revealing his role with bullocks in WWI.
Marcus Musson: Spring has sprung but log prices haven't
Sponsored content: Opinion - log and lamb prices have a lot in common this month.
Broccoli: The ultimate superfood for your garden and plate
Opinion: Broccoli is easy to grow, and growing your own seedlings is simple.
Mocked for their flock but townies had the last laugh
Opinion: It was a bit of unconventional animal husbandry. Some might even think a bit mad!
Vege tips: You will relish this tomato recipe
Opinion: Tomatoes are for growing not throwing. Unless you live in Buñol, Spain.
Marty Verry: More forestry mills will close
OPINION: Three things need to change or we'll lose more timber mills.
Taking a closer look at supermarket prices - opinion
Opinion: Supermarkets have borne the brunt of complaints about margins and profits.
Opinion: Vintage Machinery Museum started by train enthusiasts
Opinion: There's so much to see at the Fiordland Vintage Machinery Museum.
Parsley, sage, rosemary or thyme? How to choose herbs
OPINION: Kem Ormond has some sage advice about herb choices.
Ewan McGregor: The advance of the pine army threatens NZ's rural landscape
OPINION: Urgent call for Wellington to lead control of pine expansion.
Opinion: Huge potential in using yearling bulls for breeding
Opinion: Yearlings are often aged between 12 and 18 months.
Group looking out for Manawatū River
The group received $300,000 funding following Cyclone Gabrielle
Veges tips: The virtues of spinach - when it's not stuck in your teeth
Opinion: Spinach can be shared with friends and neighbours, or even your chooks.
Opinion: Keeping your stock - and yourself - safe in the yards
Opinion: Yards that are fit for purpose are a pleasure to work in.
Opinion: Gene technologies - time for a change
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Opinion: Seine Olympic water woes and NZ's wastewater infrastructure
OPINION: Expensive work on wastewater infrastructure can result in closed beaches.
Opinion: How DNA data can impact dairy farming
OPINION: Genomic data is central to unlocking a more efficient national herd.
Vege tips: Spring, red, brown, shallots - we're talking onions this week
Opinion: Spring, Red, Brown or shallots, we are talking onions this week.
Why tractor fans should head to Southland – Kem Ormond
OPINION: This vintage tractor museum will put Thornbury on the map.
Marcus Musson: Supply and demand causing issues for log exports
OPINION: Quarter three started with August prices down about $4/cu m from July.
Vege tips: Fennel - confessions of an aniseed addict
Opinion: Florence fennel is flavoursome but sometimes frowned upon.
Barry Soper: NZ's brave new world of genetic modification
OPINION: NZ has finally come out of scientific hibernation and into the real world.
Opinion: If farmers can’t cover costs, what then for the economy?
Opinion: Most people in New Zealand know that farming is important for the economy.
Opinion: NZ is running out of gas - that’s good for the climate, bad for the economy
OPINION: NZ is running out of gas. That’s good for the climate, but bad for the economy.
Protein shake-up: What next for NZ?
OPINION: Is there room for both traditional and new and novel proteins?
Vege tips: How to grow a bumper crop of beetroot
Opinion: I love seeing friends leaving with their jars of beetroot.
Opinion: Where has all the veal gone?
Opnion: I can remember seeing veal in the local butcher shop window when I was young.
Linda Hall: Intelligence of the lambs leaves humans feeling sheepish
OPINION: Yep, the humans took the wrong ewe and her twins.
Vege tips: Don't pass up the versatile parsnip
Opinion: Do you say "pass" to parsnips or are they a fave?