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• Country Life: Celery, butterflies and Travis the goat
  For 120 years, the Franklin family has farmed celery. Now it also has sunflower patches, butterfly houses and a cheeky goat who's become a bit of […]
• Country Life: "Why not llamas?"
  It was the 1990s when many farms were looking to diversify. 'Why not llamas?', thought Southland spinner and farmer Janette Buckingham. […]
• Country Life: What NZ can learn from a US farmer who coped with H5N1
  A US poultry farmer and educator shares her experience of an H5N1 outbreak, the loss of 148,000 birds, and biosecurity lessons she believes every farm […]
• New US tariffs likely to face court challenges
  New Zealand's special agricultural trade envoy Nathan Guy says exporters across the board are bracing for more uncertainty. […]
• Police rescue team phones in local farmer, who saves elderly man and dog
  Rescuers had grave concerns for an elderly fisherman stranded at night in the cold by a South Island river, until they called in a farmer with local k […]
• South Island snow buffs hope for another mid-winter cold snap
  Matariki made for ideal skating conditions around popular spot Lake Ida near Lake Coleridge in Canterbury. […]
• Farming sector buoyed by EU's new take on sustainable farming
  The European Union's new strategy shows an approach which values livestock while trying to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, but it comes am […]
• Bullets in wool bales in Hawke's Bay 'deeply shocking'
  The discovery of live ammunition at a wool processing plant is prompting an urgent safety warning to the wool industry. […]
• Floor set for milk prices
  Prices appear to have stabilised at the Global Dairy Trade auction, stopping the previous slide. […]
• Rural communities rally to help flood-hit farmers rebuild damaged fences
  A Marlborough company has sent a delivery of thousands of free fence posts to farmers in need around neighbouring Kaikōura. […]
• Calving time has Northland stud farm seeing double
  Sam Biddles' cows have produced 11 sets of twins already, with a quarter of the herd yet to give birth. […]