Sally Rae

East Otago farmers Simon and Kirstin Engelbrecht have taken top honours in the New Zealand ewe hogget competition.

Since 1905, successive generations of the Simpson family have farmed Springside at Tokarahi in North Otago.

Factory farming. Two highly emotive words which are widely used to describe intensive agriculture.

Natural resource industries were the foundation for economic activity in most regional economies, Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce said yesterday.

Chris Adams in his paddock of award-winning fodder at Hindon. Photo by Peter McIntosh.

He is a rally-driving farmer with a bent for business.

Dunedin tertiary student Rebecca Elmslie reckons cycle safety has to be ''dealt with''.

Jackie Freeman reckons there is ''more to goats than meets the eye''.

Matakanui Station has done it again.

Big is not necessarily better.

Alliance Group's newest independent director Vanessa Stoddart describes the meat industry as being ''at the heart'' of New Zealand. She talked to agribusiness reporter Sally Rae during the company's inaugural Pure South conference in Queenstown this week.

Agresearch's decision to make Invermay-based senior scientist Dr Julie Everett-Hincks redundant has been slammed as ''short-sighted'' and ''just ridiculous'' by a Southland sheep breeder.

Five Forks dairy farmer Lyndon Strang isn't expecting any surprises today when the dairy co-operative updates its forecast 2013-14 season payout.

Hunt tourism can make a high country station sustainable, as well as thrill the trophy seekers, writes Sally Rae.

Last month's trade surplus may have been weaker than both the market and economists' expectations, but was still the sixth successive surplus.

Will and Emily Murray, from Glenmore Station, have won the Otago Merino Association's clip-of-the-year title.

Peter Wardell has always been a believer in grasping opportunities.

''Capturing sunlight in a form you can eat.''