Sally Rae

Federated Farmers members have less than a week left to complete a survey regarding reform options for New Zealand's red meat industry.

Dunedin-based GPS mapping company TracMap has signed a supply agreement with Australia's largest tomato grower.

Mustering huts still play an important role on some high country properties, like the Hore family's Stonehenge, in Maniototo, but hut life is a little more comfortable these days, as Sally Rae reports.

Each year, the Siberia Hut, in Mt Aspiring National Park, attracts about 2000 users, as a popular overnight stay for trampers on the Gillespie Pass circuit track, as Sally Rae reports.

It has been a big year for food integrity consultant Helen Darling, who left Oritain Global, the pioneering company of which she was founding chief executive, launched her own consultancy business and brought an international food safety conference to Dunedin. Dr Darling is the Otago Daily Times Business Leader of the Year 2013. Business reporter Sally Rae caught up with her.

ABSolute Health and Fitness directors Rachel van Gorp and Richard McKinlay have two simple goals for next year - keep growing and keep people happy.

Tru-Bilt Industries has come a long way from supplying the local domestic garage door market.

When PocketSmith co-founder Jason Leong heard Xero intended winding down its personal finance product, he quickly got in touch with chief executive Rod Drury.

A start-up company, which aims to commercialise novel gas detection technology, has secured funding thanks to a new partnership between Dunedin's Upstart business incubator and Christchurch-based seed fund investor powerHouse Ventures Ltd.

There is no place for looking back, regrets, accusations or ''if only's'' in the red meat sector - it is time to embrace change, outgoing Silver Fern Farms chairman Eoin Garden says.

Newly elected Silver Fern Farms director Richard Young believes the sheep industry needs to celebrate its successes.

Clinton farmer David Shaw has been ousted from the board of Silver Fern Farms as former Meat Industry Excellence executive members Richard Young and Dan Jex-Blake have been voted on.

Craig Adams has always loved music.

Alliance Group director Jason Miller has been dumped by shareholders, and Waikaka Valley farmer Don Morrison has been appointed to the group's board.