Health and Wellbeing

The financial pressures of rising costs and interest rates, and the depressing milk price forecast, can be devastating enough – particularly for those farmers carrying high debt.

Kara Boyes always had a keen interest in traditional healing practices, which led her to study rongoa.

Memorandum of understanding signed to support young rural people.

Richard McIntyre says he’s proud to introduce himself as a dairy farmer when he meets new people. But his Twitter feed notes he’s a husband and father first “because it’s easy to forget that".

It’s Mental Health Awareness Week, and these simple actions are proved to help.

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.

Steve Wyn-Harris returns briefly to the Ridge to give warning about a wet-season lambing hazard that recently caught him with his gloves off.

A travelling shearer gets candid hoping to normalise talking about one’s health struggles and to emphasise why it’s important to listen to your body.

With a quarter-century under its belt, charity drive auctions off more than 300 donated sheep.

Star shearer and rugby great help showcase the benefits of iron in diet.

The annual prostate cancer campaign each September was of no more than passing interest to Farmers Weekly deputy editor Craig Page – until he received his diagnosis.

Rollout to ag first-years shown to significantly benefit mental wellbeing of young participants.

New equity agreements exclude those working in community and primary facilities.

Hawke’s Bay sheep and beef farmer Patrick Crawshaw shares how he’s dealt with the aftermath of Gabrielle.

Five services sign up to ‘collaborative network’.

Dairy farmers have been sharing with Farmstrong how they use the Five Ways. Here are a few examples to get you thinking. 

The fruit may contain helpful compounds that may help reverse pre-diabetes symptoms including elevated blood sugar.

When floodwaters recede leaving farmers staring down the barrel of costly repairs to their land and infrastructure, it can seem overwhelming, but financial assistance is at hand.

A good work-life balance is one of the metrics this farming business measures itself by.

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

‘Vision is for all people living in rural communities to live long and healthy lives’.

Glob-inspired programme the pride of region.

The busy calving period is a time when farmers often suffer from strains and sprains but DairyNZ and ACC are working on innovations to help minimise these.

A Pāmu business manager says maturity in a workplace culture makes for a safer environment.

Aimed at gamers, the powdered formulation contained ingredients to help filter blue light for eye health.

A Dunedin gynaecologist sold her home to fund a bus that brings better health care to women in remote areas.

Slade MacDonald says he was a wild child but came back to New Zealand to straighten himself out.

Cheeky new health and safety campaign to address sometimes fatal conditions on NZ farms.

The new hyperimmune sheep's milk acts similarly to colostrum, offering enhanced protection against viruses.

A two-stage programme has the potential to halve the number of lives claimed by prostate cancer every year.

Manufacturers from across world to promote products.

Yellow flower trialled on high-country farms after research finds properties in plant that may help Alzheimer’s sufferers.

Feds hopes health audit will also address inequity in rural-urban health provision.

Hawke’s Bay ‘brothers’ make time for a restorative gym session amid the grind of post-cyclone repairs.

Federated Farmers board member briefs region on cyclone aftermath.

Increasing numbers of patients choppered to towns.