Southland Mosque Imam and dairy farmer Reza-Abdul Jabbar, Josh Mainwaring and Des Harris from the Hunting Lodge at Waimauku, Westland dairy farmer shareholder Richard Reynolds and the Regional Wrap.

After suffering an accident 20 years ago Chris Ashwell could no longer drive trucks so, for something to do, he started planting vegetables in his back garden. The joy of growing food quickly turned into an organic market garden business that has spread across 13 hectares of fertile land near Rangiora. His most successful vegetable is the award winning Tuahiwi Gold potato. Chris was given a tonne of the previously unwanted chipping spud and he now has the only seed stock for it in the country.

Waikato farmer Henk Smit had to kill 800 cows and calves when mycoplasma bovis was detected in his herd. He has put his property on the market and wants to leave the country.

Paddocks are greening up in many North Island places while in the South Island Marlborough is going quickly from brown to green.

Jeff Grant is New Zealand's Red meat Sector representative in London. He puts a human face on some of the implications of Brexit.

Unwanted spuds become Tuahiwi Gold, Henk Smit's cows leave his farm after M Bovis found there in spring,  New Zealand's Red Meat Sector representative in London Jeff Grant and the Regional Wrap.

After suffering an accident 20 years ago, Chris Ashwell could no longer drive trucks. For something to do, he started planting vegetables in his back garden. Quickly, the joy of growing food blossomed into an organic market garden business spread across 13 hectares of fertile land near Rangiora.

A group supplying lamb to some Michelin star restaurants is looking to recruit more farmers as it aims to scale up production. Te Mana Lamb is bred in the New Zealand high country and costs about 50 percent more than normal lamb. It is marketed as being to lamb what Wagyu is to beef, with a fine marbling of Omega-3 fats achieved through breeding and grazing on a specific type of chicory pasture. The product is part of the Omega Lamb Project, a programme which started in 2015 and involves New Zealand's largest sheepmeat exporter Alliance Group, the Ministry for Primary Industries and 35 farmers.

Dr Santanu Deb-Choudhury and his team at AgResearch have found that proteins from sheep wool fibre can help improve the digestive health of cats.

In Bay of Plenty the kiwifruit export picking season has started, and, for the first time ever, Zespri will pack more gold kiwifruit than green this season. Marlborough farms are looking a picture after about 65 millimetres of rain this week.