Recent stories
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Taming the Kaimanawa
As the morning fog cleared to reveal stunning views of rolling hills and geothermal steam rising skywards, Kelly Wilson and her trainers got to work.
Slow release for fertiliser revolution
A Taupō-based fertiliser company has developed an innovative slow-release product that reduces nitrogen use but is stuck in legislative limbo when it comes to crucial claims about its ability to reduce on-farm greenhouse gas emissions.
Concern over spread of hornets
A Taupō-based honey exporter has called for a quarantine to protect the district against yellow-legged hornets, a newly discovered pest.
Top sportspeople honoured
Taupō’s annual sports awards had everything from rodeo bull riding to kart racing and karate.
Sika and you will find
A hunting contest with more than $80,000 in prizes has been launched to help reduce the sika deer population in the Kaimanawa and Kaweka Forests.
Taupō kicks off horse trials season
The first major horse trials event of the 2025-26 season takes place at the Fiber Fresh National Equestrian Centre, Aratiatia, Taupō, on Saturday and Sunday, with top combinations entered from throughout the North Island.
Commercial Vehicle Safety Centre update
The new Commercial Vehicle Safety Centre alongside the State Highway 1 and State Highway 5 roundabout at Taupō is well advanced.
Learning new skills as an adult
Grownups shouldn’t stop learning and that’s what the Festival of Adult Learning Ahurei Ākonga is all about.
100 years of solidarity
Rural Women New Zealand (RWNZ), originally the Women’s Division of the Farmers’ Union, was fouinded in 1925 by a group of 16 women who sought community and friendship, addressing the isolation and hardship faced by women in rural settings.
Taupō dairy factory in surprise sale
In a what is being described by one of the players as an opportunity that happened quickly, Mōkai-based dairy company Miraka is being sold to Open Country Dairy.
The fine art of fencing
For those who like to set boundaries, Taupō is hosting an event not to be missed next week.
Handing a farm over to the next generation
BFA and Craigs Investment Partners are hosting an event later this month to take a deep dive into the practical and emotional side of succession planning.
Sheep become ‘environmental do-gooders’
Tihoi dairy sheep farmer and Federated Farmers Rotorua-Taupō meat and wool chair Ruby Mulinder and husband Sean Nixon, a process engineer in the milk sector, have found a farming way of life that suits them.
New generation masters old skills
It may not be essential to becoming national youth ranch horse champions to live just down the road from the only arena in the country that stages monthly events, but it probably helps.
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