Lifestylers are being urged to help protect New Zealand’s pigs from a deadly swine disease that is spreading overseas and kills about 80 percent of the pigs it infects.

When feed is short there are only a few options for farmers with livestock. Find more feed or reduce the need for feed. Reducing the need for feed means keeping fewer animals, or animals with lower…

This is the month to start and take seriously the warnings of another dry summer. The rain most parts had in November (always a critical month) and December will have been enough.