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November 10, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Fancy a drop of “kiwi-friendly” wine or a bite of a “kiwi-friendly” kiwifruit? Branding fruit as “kiwi-friendly” could be a future marketing tool for producers after a study showed the North Island brown kiwi foraging for bugs in Northland vineyards and orchards, scientists say. Follow Country Life on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, ... <a title="Country Life: Harnessing the power of kiwi in horticulture" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/country-life-harnessing-the-power-of-kiwi-in-horticulture/" aria-label="Read more about Country Life: Harnessing the power of kiwi in horticulture">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Brett Coubrough and his daughter Linda checking on their cows. Gianina Schwanecke / Country Life The Coubroughs know their decisions today will determine the years to come. Brett, whose grandparents originally bought the 76-hectare dairy farm near Tirau in 1907, runs the property with his two children Tim and Linda. Succession ... <a title="Country Life: Tirau dairy farm’s tech adoption" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/country-life-tirau-dairy-farms-tech-adoption/" aria-label="Read more about Country Life: Tirau dairy farm’s tech adoption">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand The first calves of a new crossbred dairy-beef offering are now on the ground at a Pāmu, formerly Landcorp, farm near Taupō. Supplied On a state-owned farm near Taupō, the first creamy-coloured calves of a new dairy-beef crossbreed are frolicking. Called the Synergizer, the calves are the result of combining genetics ... <a title="First calves of new dairy-beef crossbreed raised in Taupō" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/first-calves-of-new-dairy-beef-crossbreed-raised-in-taupo/" aria-label="Read more about First calves of new dairy-beef crossbreed raised in Taupō">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Alliance Group meatworks in Southland. RNZ / Nathan McKinnon The overseas investment offer to rescue red meat processor Alliance Group has gotten even sweeter. Irish company Dawn Meats has increased its proposed investment from $250 million to $270m, following stronger-than-expected year-end results from Alliance. Dawn Meats’ proposed 65 percent stake in ... <a title="Dawn Meats raises bid for Alliance stake ahead of shareholder vote" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/dawn-meats-raises-bid-for-alliance-stake-ahead-of-shareholder-vote/" aria-label="Read more about Dawn Meats raises bid for Alliance stake ahead of shareholder vote">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Wattie’s New Zealand is cutting down on local produced crops, including tomatoes, corn and beetroot. pixabay Wattie’s New Zealand is further reducing fruit and vegetable crops it sources from its home of Hawke’s Bay, citing an ongoing struggle against cheaper imports. Growers of key crops beetroot, corn and tomatoes will be ... <a title="Wattie’s NZ taking fewer tomatoes, corn, beetroot until demand increases" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/watties-nz-taking-fewer-tomatoes-corn-beetroot-until-demand-increases/" aria-label="Read more about Wattie’s NZ taking fewer tomatoes, corn, beetroot until demand increases">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Federated Farmers president Wayne Langford said the new targets were backed by science and had landed in a “solid” place. AgResearch Farmers have welcomed the government’s new “science-based” biogenic methane targets for 2050. It’s dropped the reduction target for biogenic methane from 24 to 47 percent below 2017 levels by 2050, ... <a title="Farmers welcome government’s drop in methane targets" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/farmers-welcome-governments-drop-in-methane-targets/" aria-label="Read more about Farmers welcome government’s drop in methane targets">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Fallen trees at the side of the road in Riversdale in Wairarapa on Thursday. RNZ / Mark Papalii Many rural communities are clearing away fallen trees, debris and repairing fences in wind battered regions, following yesterday’s storm. Katie Wyeth, a Federated Farmers spokesperson for Wairarapa, said many farmers hadn’t even had ... <a title="Falling trees kill sheep, cut power on Wairarapa farms" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/falling-trees-kill-sheep-cut-power-on-wairarapa-farms/" aria-label="Read more about Falling trees kill sheep, cut power on Wairarapa farms">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Flooding on Pāmu Farms’ West Coast dairy farms. SUPPLIED/PĀMU FARMS OF NZ South Island farmers are working to keep farms running amid power outages, road closures and damaging winds – with all eyes on rising rivers. Follow updates on RNZ’s blog Severe gale northwesterlies are lashing parts of the east coast ... <a title="South Island farmers watch rising rivers, protect livestock in storm, Pāmu Farms says" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/south-island-farmers-watch-rising-rivers-protect-livestock-in-storm-pamu-farms-says/" aria-label="Read more about South Island farmers watch rising rivers, protect livestock in storm, Pāmu Farms says">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand 123RF Environmental lawyers say they remain concerned about the risks posed by glyphosate-based products, the most commonly used herbicide in Aotearoa, despite a rejection in the High Court. Last week, the High Court dismissed the Environmental Law Initiative’s (ELI) challenge of the Environmental Protection Authority’s (EPA) decision not to reassess glyphosate, ... <a title="Environmental lawyers’ bid for reassessment of weedkilling glyphosate rejected" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/environmental-lawyers-bid-for-reassessment-of-weedkilling-glyphosate-rejected/" aria-label="Read more about Environmental lawyers’ bid for reassessment of weedkilling glyphosate rejected">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand A sow in a farrowing crate. (File photo) Claudius Thiriet / Biosphoto via AFP MPs deliberating controversial changes to pig welfare rules will have less time to scrutinise new rules. The Animal Welfare Amendment (Regulations of Management of Pigs) Bill proposed to keep farrow crates, but gave pig farmers 10 years ... <a title="Time to consider controversial changes to pig welfare rules cut" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/time-to-consider-controversial-changes-to-pig-welfare-rules-cut/" aria-label="Read more about Time to consider controversial changes to pig welfare rules cut">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Ingka Investments the parent company of furniture giant Ikea has bought 10,000 hectares of production forestry in Northland. Supplied Ingka Investments, the parent company of furniture giant Ikea, has bought 10,000 hectares of production forestry in Northland from Greenheart Group. It takes the company’s investment in the country’s forestland to nearly ... <a title="Ikea owner buys up Northland forestry" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/ikea-owner-buys-up-northland-forestry/" aria-label="Read more about Ikea owner buys up Northland forestry">Read more</a>
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November 10, 2025
Source: Radio New Zealand Alliance Group meatworks in Southland. RNZ / Nathan McKinnon Alliance Group farmer-shareholders have voted in favour of a proposed $270 million investment from Irish meat processor Dawn Meats. Under the agreement, Dawn Meats will acquire a 65 percent stake in Alliance Group, with farmer-shareholders retaining 35 percent ownership. More than 2600 ... <a title="Alliance farmers vote yes on $270m deal with Dawn Meats" class="read-more" href="https://eveningreport.nz/2025/11/10/alliance-farmers-vote-yes-on-270m-deal-with-dawn-meats/" aria-label="Read more about Alliance farmers vote yes on $270m deal with Dawn Meats">Read more</a>
