An eagle-eyed shopper discovered this apple in the produce section of a local food outlet and thought to herself, "how unusual, I've not seen anything like that...
Turihaua Angus will offer a line-up of 25 yearling bulls and nine two-year-olds in their sale on Wednesday next week.
The Spring Sale will be held on-farm at th...
More cases of the cattle disease Mycoplasma bovis (M.bovis) are expected this spring, with bulk tank milk testing last month picking up 61 farms requiring furth...
KIWIS have been encouraged to support New Zealand's pig farmers by only buying ‘home-grown' pork during the Covid-19 restrictions.
New Zealand pig farmers are d...
Turanga Health chief executive Rewiti Ropiha said that the rural vaccination clinics continue to go well.
As at the end of last Tuesday, 733 rural people had re...
Gisborne couple David and Judi Grey from Waerenga-a-Hika will feature on Country Calendar tomorrow night at 7pm. The Grey’s have developed a new type of avocado...
SILVER Fern Farms has achieved Toitu enviromark diamond certification, the highest New Zealand-based environmental certification.
It represents another importan...
GISBORNE company Wisewool, a division of Allwool Ltd, is now open for business in the home insulation area.
The company's ‘Wisewool' insulation product fits per...
BEEF and Lamb New Zealand have planned a ‘Farm Plan' workshop to be staged at Otoko next week, subject to what happens with the Alert Level 4 lockdown.
B+LNZ h...
Our moment has come.
Rural people in our region, it might be time to sharpen the pitchforks and march on town.
That might be a bit dramatic, but the council's...
Te Karaka's Rod Mead and his three-year-old dog Flame won the final of the J and T Hickey Charity sheep dog trial on Saturday.
Testing sheep made for a tricky ...
PRICES fell slightly yesterday for
the store lambs at the weekly Matawhero sheep sale.
There were 1569 sheep and 40 feeder calves yarded.
DA and CM Redpath at ...
This was the best pen of Maurice and Annie Flood's capital stock ewes put up for sale at the weekly Matawhero sheep sale on Friday.
The 179 head sold for $215....
These two very heavy prime ram lambs (pictured above) from Poverty Bay Shearing sold at the weekly Matawhero sheep sale last Friday for a whopping $295, which w...
Last Friday's weekly sheep sale at the Matawhero saleyards produced strong results, with some prime ewes selling for $283, some prime ram lambs for $218.50, som...
WITH the arrival of Spring, Gisborne District Council will be checking growers follow the spraying rules so the health of the community and environment remain p...
The Matawhero saleyards remained closed this week and the usual Friday sheep sale could not happen for the second Friday in a row. There was not undue alarm tho...
Comment by Toby Williams (Gisborne-Wairoa Federated Farmers president)
As a rural person, a big part of the enjoyment is the challenge. Every day is differ...
CITRUS NZ has advised its members that due to the uncertainty around Covid-19 alert levels the annual conference has been postponed.
The conference, along with ...
TURANGA Health's mobile vaccination clinics in rural areas are going well, according to CEO Reweti Ropiha, who said that he and his team were delighted with the...
DAVID and Judi Grey's avocado orchard in Bushmere Road at Waerenga-a-Hika will feature on Hyundai Country Calendar on Sunday, August 29 at 7pm on TVNZ1.
The co...
SHEEP numbers are dwindling while beef cattle are on the rise, according to Beef and Lamb New Zealand's (B+LNZ) annual stock number survey.
The survey found the...
Around 40 of the district's highly-skilled grape pruners went head-to-head last week in the annual LeaderBrand-run Silver Secateurs competition at the Makaraka ...
The main lambing season is about to start across the region and hopefully the mums and their new arrivals have the same good run the early mated ewes had, said ...
The annual J and T Hickey Charity sheep dog trial culminated this afternoon with the final at the Riding for the Disabled pavilion at Showgrounds Park.
The las...
GISBORNE District Council’s Natural Heritage Fund has been given a funding boost from $40,000 to $100,000 for this funding round and applications for grants are...
Recent rises in the meat schedule and buyer interest from outside the district led to firmer prices for the 1181 cattle offered in the monthly cattle fair at th...