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• Country Life: Farmer's Lake Braemore popular with Wairarapa locals
  Len French wanted a lake to help with water security on his eastern Wairarapa farm. What he's built, Lake Braemore, is now a community asset that […]
• Country Life: Farming with a toddler in tow
  20-month-old Charlie Munro already knows some dog calls and how to open gates. His Mum, Anna, also grew up at Cravendale, a hill country farm near Mou […]
• 'Best farmers in the world': Christopher Luxon praises New Zealand's agriculture sector
  "We are the best farmers in the world," the prime miister says. […]
• MPI investigates high summer death rate in New Zealand King Salmon following SAFE complaint
  Complaint by animal advocacy group over fish deaths prompts probe. […]
• The big benefit of tree planting in Hawke's Bay
  Tree planting efforts around Hawke's Bay hill country farms are paying off, new data shows. […]
• 'Bumper' salt volumes in cyclone recovery for Dominion Salt
  Harvest produced nothing after being disrupted by Cyclone Gabrielle. […]
• Fat of the land: Modern homesteading in Central Otago
  Self-suffiency pro Gillian Swinton says living off the land is about community and giving back. […]
• Grape growers take steps to minimise carbon footprint
  Climate change is a key threat facing the wine industry. […]
• Vietnam 'a real star' for NZ apples and kiwifruit - so which are next?
  A new deal has offered hope for more products from New Zealand's horticulture sector to enter the lucrative market of Southeast Asia's faste […]
• Country Life: Eco-sourced plants flying out the gate at a Rūnaka-owned nursery
  Phil Moeke is the manager of Te Kōhaka o Tāne (The Nest of Tānemahuta), a commercial nursery in Invercargill that has grown over 800,000 native trees […]
• Weathering the 'worst drought in 50 years' as an organic dairy farmer
  Moving to once-a-day milking has helped Janet Fleming through Taranaki's recent drought. […]