Sally Rae

Mitchell and Webster Group, the winner's of this year's Otago Ballance Farm Environment Awards, will host a field day on Wednesday.

In 2004, Birchwood Station, in the Ahuriri Valley, was sold by the Williamson family to the Nature Heritage Fund for $10 million.

Asked about finances available to cover the cost of fire, Mr Young said Doc carried a whole raft of insurance and it was ''well covered''.

Farming is not going to get any easier as farmers meet the expectations of ''everybody outside of farming'', Federated Farmers Otago president Stephen Korteweg says.

Jo Morshuis reckons the secret to her success in business has been always doing ''everything from the gut''.

Last week marked the end of an era at Gem Lake Station with the last cattle weaning muster of its kind, due to the completion of tenure review. Agribusiness reporter Sally Rae and illustrations editor Stephen Jaquiery went along for the ride.

Export volumes of lamb in March increased by a third, or almost 13,000 tonnes, compared with 2012, with virtually all of the additional volume destined for China.

Kia Motors' new Dunedin dealership in Kaikorai Valley Rd will be officially opened today. The development cost about $600,000, Dunedin Kia (also widely known as Carbase) dealer principal Neil Videler said.

China is ''open for business'' - but it is not going to wait around for New Zealand to get its act together, Oritain Global chief executive Dr Helen Darling says.

A possible first hike of the official cash rate in March next year would be the beginning of a process of ''normalising'' the OCR from its historic low, BNZ economist Kymberly Martin says.