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• Country Life: Turning forestry slash into something good for the planet
  A large farm and forestry operation in the Far North is keen to turn its slash from upcoming harvests into something that benefits the land, climate a […]
• Country Life: 'When I start building a trug, I fall into a wonderful state of mind'
  Tony Hitchcock has been crafting trugs - wooden garden baskets - for several years using untreated willow or hazel and poplar sourced locally from aro […]
• Country Life: Growing better tomatoes by getting more bugs in the garden
  Meet Anthony and Angela Tringham, of Curious Croppers, the couple growing heirloom tomatoes using agroecology principles. […]
• Teamwork vital as rural midwives respond to rising demand
  Rural midwives have been finding themselves more and more stretched - on-call 24-7, and teamwork is key, one says. […]
• Northland avocado growers hope Australian shortage will lift prices
  Last season, bad weather in Aotearoa flooded the domestic market with lower quality fruit. […]
• South Island scenery on show as top rally car drivers tackle gravel tracks
  This year's rally features vehicles from all over the world, including cars such as Talbots, Escorts, Porsches and Lancias. […]
• Cost of losing GE-free label on primary exports unknown - report
  A new report suggests they could be reduced by up to $10-20 billion in revenue each year. […]
• Most NZ dairy farmers put profitability first – but some are planting native trees anyway
  Hedgerows, riparian plantings and shade trees can enhance native biodiversity on dairy farms. […]
• Hawke's Bay farmers under pressure after one of driest springs for decades
  Farmers are off-loading stock and crop are failing to strike as dry conditions start to bite. […]
• Country Life: Schoolkids put buzz back into biodiversity on a Pāmu dairy farm
  Young school students plant habitat for an endangered skink and learn heaps about biodiversity at a nature reserve on a North Canterbury farm. […]
• Maritime Union joins opposition to live export shipments
  The Maritime Union also has zero faith in government assurances of a gold standard for ships used for the trade. […]