The livestock sector is booming and so is demand for high quality forage, be it forage brassicas or fodder beet.

Why would a new crop protection business, with a special interest in innovative products, bother entering the New Zealand market when bigger players struggling with some of the longest regulatory timeframes in the world are pulling back?

For New Zealand’s fodder beet and forage brassica growers, timing is everything - and so is confidence in your crop protection.

A new cross-sector body aims to deliver better long-term outcomes for the New Zealand strong wool industry, generating greater demand, lifting value and avoiding costly duplication.

After 20 years in industry good research, one of the arable sector’s best known plant scientists is back in the field full time, and he’s loving it.

Building a composting barn has cut one Canterbury dairy farm’s environmental footprint by nearly half while protecting cows and pastures alike on land with imperfect drainage.

How many times have your farmers told you grass is not a worry in brassica crops because it’s free feed and the cows will eat it?

It’s not just armies that march on their stomachs. Slugs do too.

Bay of Plenty technical lab manager Phoebe Scherer has won the coveted 2025 Young Grower national title. Scherer works for Apata in Tauranga and is also the Bay of Plenty regional champion.

If you think you’re seeing a lot more yellow around lately, your eyes are not deceiving you.

Farmers and R&D companies continue to provide feedback following the Agricultural and Horticultural Products Regulatory Review report released in February 2025.

A unique three-way project between supplier, retailer, and farmer is nearing an important milestone as it sets out to prove Californian thistles can be permanently beaten.

Arable industry peak bodies are united in support of the voluntary royalty declaration and collection system for farm-saved seed (FSS).

Effective parasite control is a key factor in keeping horses healthy, energetic, and performing at their best.

Headstart, containing 50g/l flumetsulam with inbuilt adjuvant technology, has established itself as a key tool for early weed control in pasture and chicory.

Dairy Women’s Network members have until the end of January to apply for a new $50,000 scholarship fund launched to develop their leadership skills.

The first calves of a new crossbred dairy-beef offering are now on the ground at a farm near Taupō, and the genetics will be commercially available from spring 2026.

One of Corteva Agriscience’s most recent appointments may be new to the company, but he’s far from new to the South Island primary sector.

Manufacturers are already showing interest in the arable industry’s new trademark to make it easier for consumers to buy local grain products.

Farmlands has opened its new Hastings store, part of what it says is the co-op’s ongoing strategy to invest in the region and a major milestone in its 63-year history in Hastings.