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2024
We know it’s incredibly tough right now with large parts of the country currently farming through drought conditions and feed shortages.
The Coalition Government is expanding the medium-scale adverse event classification in place for the Marlborough, Nelson, and Tasman districts to cover the Canterbury and Otago regions, Agriculture Minister Todd McClay announced today.
Tuesday 5 December saw the Alpine Fault rupture with a magnitude 8 earthquake which could be felt all the way to Wellington. In Lower Hutt, some of NZ’s best geo-scientists and other teams dropped, covered, and held for two minutes. Of course, given no one else felt the event it can be confidently stated this was an exercise!
A combination of financial pressures, flooding, employment issues and isolation took a toll on Southland farmers’ mental health at the end 2023.
Southland Rural Support Trust wellness coordinator Rachael Nicholson says the organisation received 31 new cases between August and November, twice as many as in the same quarter a year before.
NEW WEEKLY PODCAST! Join forecaster Phil Duncan & Hawke’s Bay farmer & AgriHQ senior analyst Suz Bremner every week as they track latest developments with the El Niรฑo weather pattern & what this means for you.
A new tool created by NIWA in accord with MPI provides useful weekly and 35-day outlooks for dryness and rainfall based on meteorological data.
When creating or updating your kit, think about what you and your whฤnau need to look after yourselves for a week. Imagine you're stuck at home, with no power, no running water, no internet, no cellphone coverage. How would you be able to stay warm? Cook food? Access water? Keep up to date with...
A new package of financial support announced by the Government on 29 June is now available for businesses, orchards, and farms affected by the North Island weather events in early 2023.
It’s available to...
The Lifestyle Block Emergency Preparedness Handbook provides lifestyle block owners with practical advice on how to make their property more resilient, and what to do in emergency events.
The Government is providing an initial $4 million to help farmers, growers, whenua Mฤori owners and rural communities mobilise and co-ordinate recovery efforts from Cyclone Gabrielle.