Getting children interested in agriculture is important if we want our future agriculture workforce to come from within New Zealand.

If there's one issue that could be the making of the Hawke's Bay region, it's taking a stand on genetically modified (GM) food production. Just

Dom George reckons New Zealand need a healthy dose of anarchy and dissent and we could learn this from the Icelandic people.

Federated Farmers is staunch on the importance of good evidence. If we have a good grip on the size and shape of the problem, we are

COMMENT: My lunch guest was the alleged fraudster at the heart of the expired milk products scam, Fran O'Sullivan writes.

COMMENT: Sadly, the game I once loved has mutated into a smorgasbord of unsavoury fare.

Last week I warned of upcoming shortages on some green vegetable lines, well it started last Thursday morning when I walked onto the

As someone who emigrated to the East Coast from CHB over 50 years ago, I can speak with some authority on matters relating to personal

Eight years under the Key government and provincial New Zealand is still being left to battle on to keep their regional economies

A few weeks ago I spent a busy couple of days in the city of Piura in Peru, South America, attending an APEC Food Security meeting. The

COMMENT: The Reserve Bank has some explaining to do.

As a trading nation, New Zealand must engage in global policy debates that, on face value, might appear to be a junket for delegates. I

Dom takes a trip down memory lane and gives us the history of radio which started on a farm!

I don't like starting with bad news but here is a bit of a warning, the horrible wet weather over the last month has caused some real

With abundant rain and warmer temperatures, your green vegetables and salad lines are growing superbly. Fresh asparagus, broccoli

In this week's From the Lip - Jamie answers an ill-informed critic who labels him left-wing. Don't they know he's apolitical?

OPINION: The country's reliance on its rural sector for the export income that sustains our standard of living was re-emphasised in

The voter turnout nationwide has been recognised as being the worst. It has encouraged the comment that we should be using web-based

We've ratified the Paris Agreement on Climate Change, so what next?

As heartening as the election of a revisionist majority to Hawke's Bay regional council may be, I believe the new broom councillors

Watching young animals grow and develop, learn, play and interact is one of life's greatest pleasures. Ensuring the health of an

Recent legal action against Horizons Regional Council smelled like a sordid strategy to upset the apple-cart on the eve of regional

By now most farmers have all or a good portion of their new season lamb crop on the ground. In the North Island favourable lambing

The UN health agency has recommended countries use tax policies to increase the price of sugary drinks like soft drinks, sport drinks

A weekend in the life of Dom George: fantastic All Blacks, a delectable Tuatara brew, and atrocious social "medea" spelling.

Have you ever been incensed by a badly parked car? Shelley Bridgeman lists her top five parking gripes.

Once again the Hawke's Bay Regional Council is planning to head off to the Courts to enforce their unpopular decisions on a weary

Winston Peters is calling for immigrant employers caught underpaying workers or forcing them to work long hours to be deported.

COMMENT: "Spare me the moral outrage New Zealand", Wayne Perkins reckons Aaron Smith should be left alone after his recent indiscretion.

COMMENT: Environment, drinking water and charges need to be dealt with separately, writes Iain Rabbitts.