Neal Wallace

Exporters are struggling to get shipping space due to reduced vessel capacity and the seasonal peak in production.

Dairy industry leaders have put farmers on notice to lift their game after a damning report showed many have substandard effluent management systems.

Competition among meat companies for a diminishing number of prime lambs is keeping prices higher than they should be.

A reporting season described by one broker as patchy, has received some welcome news as Scott Technology advised it was trading ahead of last year and would reward shareholders.

The number of farms sold continued to fall over summer, with just 205 sales in the three months to February, less than a third of the number of sales reported for the corresponding period in 2008.

Telecom has warned it is in for a multimillion-dollar earnings hit for three years as a result of the Government's rural broadband plans confirmed yesterday.

Fairlie farmer Anne Munro has been elected Meat and Wool New Zealand's new director for the Central South Island, unseating incumbent David Douglas.

Finance industry leader Murray Horn has been asked by the Government to unite the strong wool sector.

Troubled finance company, Strategic Finance, is unlikely to be bailed out by South Canterbury Finance, as suggested by some commentators.

OceanaGold has poured the three millionth ounce of gold from its Macraes mine in East Otago since it opened in 1990.