Farming

While heightened macro-economic and geopolitical risks are likely to exert a strong influence on global agricultural markets, New Zealand agriculture, on balance, looks set for a generally positive year.

Tony Glynn and Sarah Perriam are on a mission.

Right when we want to be basking in summer sun, here comes the long white cloud.

The Waitaki District Council has appointed Margy Gaynor as its first biodiversity co-ordinator.

Bidding was subdued with only selected bidding on better coloured and prepared lots at the wool sale in Christchurch last week.

Murray Cockburn likes nothing better than seeing previously unproductive farmland transformed into a productive oasis.

When Fiona Walker found out she had been selected as a judge for the world shearing and woolhandling championships, she "did a jig" at the mailbox.

A speciality grocery retailer's decision to slash the price of milk to $1 a litre has been praised by Federated Farmers for "kicking off a supermarket price war" - at least in one location.

The multibillion-dollar Harvard University endowment fund has achieved what the former owners of the Maniototo's Big Sky dairy farm only envisioned - profitably milking more than 6000 cows in a "super herd".

It is a big week in the South for shearers and woolhandlers.