News from the rural and farming sector.

To the rural news with Sally Murphy. Could New Zealand be doing more to grow and process enough wheat for our own consumption?

In this week's Te Waonui - - Justine Murray joins Ratahi Cross, the chairman of Ngai Tukairangi Orchard Trust in Tauranga. The trust is one of three finalists in this year's Ahuwhenua Trophy - Excellence in Horticulture, competition. Ratahi talks about the trusts forty-year history, and Neil Te Kani talks about the devastating impact of their Hastings orchards - following cyclone Gabrielle.

This week, our Maori news team look back on a big week in parliament; the latest round of kura kaupapa hearings, the countdown to Matariki, and they visit Wairoa three months on from Cyclone Gabrielle.

This week, our Maori news team have reaction to Meka Whaitiri's shock defection; kohanga kaiako are in line for a big pay rise; a High Commissioner offends the Kiingitanga; and, how are iwi confronting the prospect of managed retreat?

This week the Maori news team follow a Waitangi Tribunal inquiry into who has authority over how kaupapa Maori schools are run and Maori leaders come together with the world's Indigenous at the UN.

Tairawhiti takes its forestry concerns to the UN; does a plan to change Russell back to Kororareka have the support needed; and, a new approach for te taiao. Plus...A Maori paediatrician is warning of a looming child health emergency, with immunisation rates falling to some of their lowest-ever levels.

This week the Māori news team get reaction on the three waters shake up and follow the appointment of a new tumuaki to the Rātana faith.

This week, Taranaki iwi sign the deed of settlement for Taranaki Mounga, the Maori electoral option opens, the launch of Te Pouhere Korero, and a Ngai Tahu wharenui celebrates a century.

Our Te Manu Korihi team get reaction to new figures showing the child poverty rate remains unchanged and the longest running festival in Tuhoe set to make a return.