Sally Rae

Running his family's dairy farm in South Otago was a long-term dream for Mathew Korteweg - not that he thought it would necessarily happen.

Growing volumes of unsold wool are now at levels not seen in proportion to the New Zealand wool clip for a generation, wool brokers say.

Dairy prices lifted again this week, following severe weather that stymied a strong end to the New Zealand production season.

Rabobank is picking a farm- gate milk price around $6.25 for the 2017-18 season, as it says a figure in that area would finally allow dairy farmers to ''emerge from the woods''.

New Zealand's wine industry has marked ''quite a milestone'', with the value of bottled and bulk wine imported into the United States now exceeding Australian imports.

Hordes of job seekers from Nelson to Dunedin - including a group of Cadbury employees - converged on Fonterra's Clandeboye site for a recent recruitment day.

Jon Thom has come a long way since he sold designer T-shirts from the bedroom of his Dunedin flat.

Papakaio dairy farmer Morgan Easton says he is ''humbled'' to win the 2017 Zanda McDonald Award.

David Shelton was a year 12 pupil at Logan Park High School when he found he had a liking for accounting.

When Clutha Vets senior vet John Smart joined Clutha Vets as a young graduate back in 1976, it was a very different place to what it is now.

A top price of $11,000 was achieved at the Kailey Dairies Holstein Friesian dispersal sale in North Otago last week.

Falling volumes are forecast to push meat and wool exports down to $8.2 billion in the year ending June this year.

Dairy prices are expected to largely track sideways before drifting higher later in the year, ASB senior rural economist Nathan Penny says.

Australia's largest private equity firm, Pacific Equity Partners, is reportedly among those making a bid for Dunedin-based Mainland Poultry.

Very low slaughter rates are driving lamb prices higher as farmers continuing to hold stock.

An increase in seedling sales is a positive sign the forestry industry is gearing up for increased production, Forest Owners Association chief executive David Rhodes says.

Entering the Southland-Otago Dairy Industry Awards was not about winning for Clydevale sharemilkers Russell and Tracy Bouma.

Busy mother-of-three Kate Ivey might live in a remote location but that hasn’t stopped her developing a business which is helping inspire Kiwi women  to get fit,  as Sally Rae reports.