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• Tasman's rural resilience tested by back-to-back storms
  As a second weather bomb lashed the Tasman region, Cosmo Kentish-Barnes was on the ground with rural residents staring down the barrel of another delu […]
• New Zealand reaches deal with Canada in long-running dairy trade dispute
  The deal is expected to deliver up to $157 million to New Zealand dairy exporters. […]
• Worry and speculation as long-serving manager of Molesworth Station suddenly resigns
  Sources say Jim Ward was frustrated about the lack of action to control wilding pines on the Crown-owned land. […]
• Hawke's Bay shares cyclone silt, slash lessons with flood-hit Tasman
  The head of the silt removal programme after Cyclone Gabrielle is drawing "eerie" similarities with Nelson Tasman floods. […]
• Farmers and council at odds over management of Tasman's flood-hit Upper Motueka River
  Around 30 local farmers had been dealing with the Tasman District Council for years on ways to mitigate bank erosion and flood protection in the area. […]
• Number of livestock deaths after Nelson Tasman floods unknown
  Staff at the Ministry for Primary Industries are visiting flood-affected farms in Nelson Tasman to check on the wellbeing of animals and farmers. […]
• Emissions Trading Scheme incentivising whole farm conversions into forestry, farmers say
  But a forestry group has hit back saying it's not the only reason sheep numbers are declining. […]
• Plan to scrap Taranaki polytech's agriculture courses sparks backlash
  Western Institute of Technology is planning to scrap its agriculture courses as part of its plan to prove its financial viability amid restructuring w […]
• Government announces $600,000 support package for flood-affected farmers
  The government has given the Mayoral Relief Fund $300,000 for the Nelson Tasman rural sector. […]
• Beekeeper advocacy group ApiNZ comes under pressure
  Things are getting sticky for the country's honey sector, as the lack of a united voice for the country's thousands of producers, beekeepers […]
• Country Life: City to Farm - how leftovers are giving back to the land
  What was once waste is now a resource thanks to a clever collaboration between classrooms, care homes, cafes and countryside. […]