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A penchant for trying new crops coupled with a need to find a viable alternative to growing traditional vegetable seeds, is the driving force behind Methven cropping farmers’ Andrew Currie and Gaewynne Hood’s foray into commercially producing the new-age grain, quinoa.

Mid Canterbury farming folk have been treated to a fantastic display of all things agricultural at this year’s Ruralco Instore Days.

Mike Read has set himself a very impressive mountaineering challenge and Everest is already ticked off the list

The success of a velvet producing deer farm is all down to great deer genetics and a family working together.

Now more than ever, farmers are reliant on technology to assist in every day farming decisions.

Lincoln University will play a significant role in identifying plant, animal and disease outbreaks after receiving a game-changing piece of technology from two senior food safety researchers in the United States.

At last year’s New Zealand Precision Agriculture conference key note speaker Raj Khasla, Professor of Precision Agriculture at Colorado State University maintained that technology will do much to lift New Zealand agriculture’s sustainability and productivity.

A new 6-week programme to help women get in condition for the demands of calving season is about to be launched with the support of rural wellbeing initiative Farmstrong.

Canterbury based electricity retailer Kea Energy may be smaller than the average energy provider but there a few advantages to using Kea Energy that are definitely worthy of consideration.

“Connected Farm” is Ultimate Broadband’s new service and it promises to take on farm Internet connectivity to a whole new level.