Wheat

Joining us on the Panel this morning are Bernard Hickey and Ruth Money. Among other issues, they discuss the situation in Ukraine, National moving ahead of Labour in the polls, and the rising price of… Audio

Ukrainian villagers and farmers have been thrown back into the Middle Ages, slaughtering pigs and milking cows by hand in an effort to keep the country fed, a farmer in Ukraine says. Audio

Rob and Toni Auld have the southern-most farm distillery in the world. They grow oats, wheat and barley and transform them into whisky. Audio

The running of a mid-Canterbury cropping farm has transitioned from father to son, but it's still hard for Syd Worsfold to step back and watch Earl take over the reins of the family's Greendale… Audio

A cropping farmer at Sheffield in Canterbury is milling his own wheat and selling the flour to bakers around the country. Marty Scurr imported a stone mill from Austria last year and installed it in… Video, Audio

Rodger Hobson, the UK's largest grower of carrots, was part of a recent whirlwind tour of agricultural production systems around NZ. He says British farmers have much to learn from aspects of New… Audio, Gallery

Federated Farmers new national board member, Karen Williams, would like to see more New Zealand grown grains used in our food. Audio

Over many thousands of years, our hunting-gathering ancestors foraged and tracked down a whole host of plants and animals.Then people learned that you could derive more value from nature by taming and… Audio

The world is getting sweeter, as rising CO2 levels change not only our climate but our plants. Key crops like rice, wheat, barley and potatoes now contain more sugars and less protein than ever… Audio

Ashburton farmer Eric Watson has become a Guinness World Record holder after producing the world's highest yielding crop of wheat. Audio