Faces of NZ Farming

Wairarapa dairy farmers Hamish and Rachel Hammond have impressive academic credentials under their farming belts.

The brothers who ran Van Eeden Tulips have closed the business, leaving a huge gap in the local market.

Two mates working on the same station share how their same but different background is a winning formula.

Three 2024 Ahuwhenua Young Māori Farmer Award finalists named.

March 8 is International Women’s Day, so we’ve put together a collection of stories we’ve covered over the past 12 months of women making waves in the food and fibre sector.

DINZ CEO ‘desperately proud of NZ’s ability to produce the highest quality, safe food’.

Being involved in something bigger than oneself is so good for the soul, newly appointed Federated Farmers Taranaki president says.

Rob Cochrane started his career in the stock and station industry sorting mail. After 50 years in the industry and perhaps 1000 auctions, he retired this month.

It took a stint in an office to show Montie Hare that farming was what he really wanted to do.

Even at 100, Grace Martin says she still takes an interest in farming, particularly when it comes to the changing role of women on the farm.

2023 Zanda McDonald Award winner Harriet Bremner provides insight into what a typical day is like for her on farm.

Chair hailed as ‘a highly respected primary sector leader’.

Bundle of energy Lucinda Maunsell is channelling it into a 65km bike trail in the Tinui Valley and beyond – and that’s just the start.

Retired farm systems scientist Tom Fraser is a straight talker who takes pride in getting the basics across to farmers.

Hashini Cooke has gone from wanting to be off the farm to longing to be on one of her own.

Jodiesha Kirkpatrick reached her impressive 200-lamb tally in November while shearing on Pihitia Station just north of Gisborne.

Neal Wallace sat down with the former agriculture and trade minister as he packed up his office and reflected on his time in the Beehive.

Five years of dedication, perseverance and doing the hard yards have reaped rewards for Henry Miller, who was gunning for more than the bid in the New Zealand Young Auctioneers Contest.

Two young teachers and their children are enjoying more time – and presence – after a move to the country.

A once accountant now award-winning dairy farmer and ag social media influencer-in-the-making talks shop and what keeps her well and going on farm.

On her journey from scruffy kid dealing with family pain to the ag powerhouse she has become, Jessie Chan can trace where her strength comes from.

Sam Henson has tried his hand at a couple of trades, but there are several reasons he always comes back to dairy.

In North Canterbury is a pocket of history-rich farmland that has been owned by four neighbouring dairy farming families since the days when their ancestors 'about chased the moas off’.

At the end of her calf-rearing, beef-breeding, plant nursery and AB tech day, a multi-talented Matamata farmer and DWN member opens her hair salon out by the implements shed.

Being born into a farming family doesn't exempt you doing the hard yards to earn your keep as a generational farmer.

At the age of 14, North Canterbury’s Pieta Sidey has her own sheep stud.

A Taranaki vet has travelled around the world learning about and treating lameness in cows.

A keen sharemilking couple are taking a punt on changing to once-a-day milking for the full season for the sake of their team’s quality of life.

Young people working in food and fibre sector get organised.

A Shorthorn cattle breeder has come a long way from her first sale at sixteen.

Pioneering sheep milk pair have refined genetics over the decades.

From bale-grazing in winter to boosting oxygen in the irrigator, this North Canterbury ag leader has never met a farm system he couldn’t tweak.

Some income stability ‘is good news in a year like this’.

Living the rock’n’roll lifestyle on the road with a world-renowned band was the opportunity of a lifetime but love for the land eventually drew one Waikato farmer into the industry.

Determined to take the job by the horns, Jack Symes won a major award just two years into managing the family farm.

How you react to challenges has a huge impact on how well you manage the ups and downs of farming.