Rural Women

Farmers sexist? Half are women

Women are getting more acknowledgment in farming these days says Jessie Chan-Dorman.

Our farming industry is built on male and female partnerships, this dairy farmer says.

Entries open for sculpture fest

This large Haast's eagle by Terry Hawkins was the grand winner of the Kimbolton Sculpture Festival 2018.

With the Kimbolton Sculpture Festival 2019 approaching, organisers say it's time to get creative.

Tomo draws whole lot of tourists

Farm assistant Phillip Setters takes a look at the massive crack.

Hoards of tourists show up at Rotorua farm to check out a big sinkhole in the ground.

The art of wasting nothing

Maggie Duff's sheep come running when they are called and the bucket of sheep nuts are rattled.

A little nut tree paddock in Kimbolton is producing the perfect medium for Maggie Duff's art.

Allergic beekeeper wins award

Rory and Hannah O'Brien with their children Kieran O'Brien, 5, and Alice O'Brien, 2, after Hannah won the Emerging ...

There's no Plan B for winner of the Rural Women New Zealand emerging business award.

Spin doctor for DairyNZ

Jo Coughlan has been appointed a director of DairyNZ but the appointment has to be ratified.

Jo Coughlan's PR skill set is welcomed by DairyNZ following her board appointment.

Angling for women to try fishing video

Kathryn Vinten is part of a concerted effort  to get more women chasing trout.

New Zealand's only female trout guide wants to see more women try fishing.

Young Farmers heading to finals

Nick Brown, Jessie Waite and Matthew Herbert have been nominated for the New Zealand Young Farmers Excellence Awards.

Three Taranaki Young Farmers from the same club have been nominated for national awards

OBE recipient's lifelong service to rural women

Governor General, The Hon Sir David Stuart Beattie, presenting Valerie Tarrant with the OBE for her service to rural women.

The morning of Valerie Tarrant's wedding she was out milking cows on her family's South Taranaki farm.

Closed doors that hurt communities

The weekly playgroup at Onekaka Hall in Golden Bay has been running since 1977. Several generations of families have ...

Community halls are part of the glue that binds rural communities together, but they're under threat.

The loneliness of rural life

NZ's idyllic scenery  is hiding an underbelly of profound isolation loneliness for those living rurally.

NZ's beautiful scenery hides an underbelly of isolation for those living rurally.

Learning to lie on a cow video

Lisa Grennell escaped the city and now lives the good life on a 42-acre farm in Glenhope.

City life made Lisa Grennell anxious, but so did cows. Now she can fall asleep on them.

Calling it as it is

Meat should only be called meat if it actually is meat, says Joyce Wyllie

Joyce Wyllie doesn't mince words.

100 years of floral tributes

Florist Steffi Chapman owns Lovell's Flowers, a business that has been going for 100 years in Hawera.

A flurry of welcome home wreaths for soldiers launched a floral art enthusiast into business.

Rural Joyce vs urban trolls

Joyce Wyllie, left, her mum and brother Neil celebrate her mum's 89th birthday as Joyce reflects on 55 opinion columns.

Sharing a rural life can open the writer up to both brickbats and bouquets.

Small cheese but big fees video

Biddy Fraser-Davies and one of her milking cows, Patsy.

The inaugural Eketahuna Cheese Festival is as much about cheese as it is about fighting for a fairer industry.

Dairy crackdown always on the cards

The intensification of dairy farming in New Zealand has seen cows appearing in areas considered unsuitable for dairying ...

OPINION: David Parker's dairy crackdown was always on the cards.

Farmers key to biosecurity

Farmers should know more about possible biosecurity breaches as they are at the front line.

Farmers pay $366 million a year for biosecurity and each of them has a role to play in biosecurity

Changing of the guard

Dairy Women's Network chief executive Zelda de Villiers leaves at the end of May to take up a new role in Northland.  ...

Dairy Women's Network chief executive officer Zelda de Villiers is leaving for a new role in Northland.

The lives of 55 vets 38 years on

Joyce Wyllie, third from left, in a reunion photo of the Vet Class of 1980

Joyce Wyllie graduated from vet school with 54 other students in 1980.

From red bands to high heels

A break from the gumboots and dairy farm, Laura enjoys dressing to impress at Fashion in the Field events.

Laura Campbell enjoys a rural lifestyle filled by sharemilking and a dash of fashion.

It's a bit of a dag

Lambs return to the paddock with clean rear ends.

OPINION: It's a smelly job, but it's got to be done.

The patient is ailing fast

The government has rejected a funding bid by the Rural Health Alliance Aotearoa New Zealand, which would have kept the ...

The over-arching voice of rural health may be gone following the loss of vital funding from the Government.

'Dressage at speed'

Plenty of grit and determination when Tegan O'Callaghan rides in a rodeo barrel race.

A Far North teen is heading to the US to compete on the international rodeo stage, Fritha Taggs gets a close-up of her training.

Devastating disease has huge impact on those affected

One of three Dairy farms North of Winton in Southland understood to be placed under Restricted Place Biosecurity Notice, ...

  OPINION: Mycoplasma Bovis means no cows, no milkings, no routine, no jobs, and major disruption to families, staff and rural communities.

Best of the best

The Dairy Women's Network conference focused on the two key elements at the heart of the dairy industry, land and ...

The Dairy Women's Network celebrate their 20th anniversary.

Group to provide back-up to farmers

North Canterbury provincial president for Federated Farmers Lynda Murchison is co-chairwoman for the new Canterbury ...

The Canterbury Primary Industries Adverse Events Cluster Group will be there to support Canterbury's farmers during adverse events.

Dairy Women's Network celebrating 20 years

A dairy consultant, a district mayor, and a leadership coach are finalists in the 2018 Fonterra Dairy Woman of the Year ...

With DWN poised to mark its 20th year in 2018, its upcoming conference will celebrate the primary reason the Network was established in 1998 – to bring women in the dairy industry together. 

On the path to success

Coming from an urban background, Stephanie Walker had ever considered a career in farming but always enjoyed animals so ...

 Winning the Dairy Trainee of the Year title has given Stephanie Walker confidence in herself and the decisions she makes and confirms that she is in the "right industry".

Forced isolation by ex-Cyclone Gita

Flooding damage at Kaituna in Golden Bay after ex-cyclone Gita passed through the region.

Ex-Cyclone's wrath will be felt in Golden Bay for a long time yet.

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