Jackie Edkins, RWNZ Communications Officer on Radio New Zealand Nine to Noon show talking about our school bus safety campaign.  Read More

Glenorchy Rural Women recently  had their Christmas function at Punatapu.    Read More

Poplars and willows - they’re the arboreal workhorse of our rural landscape, holding hillsides and river banks together, providing shade, shelter, timber and fodder for stock when feed is short. It’s therefore appropriate that the first Trees on Farms workshop for 2012, to be held in Central Hawke’s Bay in February, will focus on the management of these two species at a time of year when the option of harvesting appropriate trees for fodder starts to look very appealing. Read More

Improving health and safety in the agriculture industry – a sector with one of the highest death and injury tolls - is the focus of the draft Agriculture Section Action Plan released for consultation today(14/12/2011).  Read More

Read interviews with farmers, vets and TB testers working at the frontline of New Zealand’s battle with bovine TB.  This resource has been put together by the Animal Health Board to be used as a education initiative to communicate the continuing threat TB poses to our beef, deer and dairy industries. Read More

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Our Wairarapa Women in Farming group recently gathered at Rural Women member Janet and husband Craig Morrison’s farm at Te Wharau, east of Masterton to hear about and see their Drysdale sheep.  Read More

Isla Stuart McRae, CBE, JP, 1926-2011   Read More

Some fantastic photos from the Onewhero Rural Women! Great work ladies!!! Read More