Sally Rae

A supply offer enabling Fonterra farmer shareholders to sell the economic rights of some of their shares will open today. They will have the opportunity to offer to sell the economic rights of up to 25% of their minimum required shares (wet shares) to the Fonterra Shareholders Fund.

Details of how the Invermay campus will be affected by AgResearch's proposal to invest $100 million in facilities and resources over the next four years have not yet been finalised.

Wayne McNee has resigned as head of the Ministry for Primary Industries to become chief executive of dairy farmer co-operative Livestock Improvement Corporation.

In this week's In Business feature, Sally Rae talks to Perand Rachel Lindstrand, of Melt Candles.

Murray and Heidi Rixon get a real buzz from sharing their love of bees.

When it comes to acquiring a posting for your first-year United Kingdom agricultural course, you could not go much further than Libby Eglington has.

Dunedin sisters Ella Murdoch and Talia O'Connor share a passion for homeware, colour, fashion and design.

It is ironic that it was not until after Lynn Samuels moved from Scotland to Otago that she took up breeding Highland cattle.

Beef and Lamb New Zealand chairman Mike Petersen believes the adoption of tradable slaughter rights could deliver the behavioural change required to get the red-meat industry ''functioning better''.

Half of New Zealand's sheep and beef farmers consider their business to be ''just viable'' or unviable, the latest quarterly Rabobank rural confidence survey has shown.