Details of how the Invermay campus will be affected by AgResearch's proposal to invest $100 million in facilities and resources over the next four years have not yet been finalised.
Wayne McNee has resigned as head of the Ministry for Primary Industries to become chief executive of dairy farmer co-operative Livestock Improvement Corporation.
In this week's In Business feature, Sally Rae talks to Perand Rachel Lindstrand, of Melt Candles.
Murray and Heidi Rixon get a real buzz from sharing their love of bees.
When it comes to acquiring a posting for your first-year United Kingdom agricultural course, you could not go much further than Libby Eglington has.
It is ironic that it was not until after Lynn Samuels moved from Scotland to Otago that she took up breeding Highland cattle.
Dunedin sisters Ella Murdoch and Talia O'Connor share a passion for homeware, colour, fashion and design.
Beef and Lamb New Zealand chairman Mike Petersen believes the adoption of tradable slaughter rights could deliver the behavioural change required to get the red-meat industry ''functioning better''.
Half of New Zealand's sheep and beef farmers consider their business to be ''just viable'' or unviable, the latest quarterly Rabobank rural confidence survey has shown.
The first shipment of infant milk formula from A2 Corporation will be sent to China next month, as the dairy company taps into lucrative international demand for New Zealand-made infant formula.
Sheep and beef farmers, along with meat processors and exporters, are keen to see the inclusion of Japan in free-trade-agreement negotiations, describing it as an important market for New Zealand meat.
South Otago vet John Smart reckons New Zealand sheep farmers have not had enough recognition for improvements made over the years.
Farming and family go together for Morgan and Hayley Easton.
For Queenstown businesswoman Jacqui Spice, the secret to success has been a simple philosophy - never say no.
The Meat Industry Excellence group will look to extend its executive New Zealand-wide as it continues to seek a national mandate for change in the red meat industry.
Rainbow Confectionery Ltd has doubled its capacity with the acquisition of an Australian confectionery plant.
Fonterra is renewing contracts for some of its organic dairy farmers, less than two years after slashing the number of supplier farmers throughout the North Island, but the news is not so good for Northland suppliers.
Though the widespread drought has caused milk production to plummet and resulted in a record sheep and beef kill, economists have signalled the net cost to the economy could be ''close to zero'' - thanks to global dairy price increases.
Organisers of a red meat industry meeting in Christchurch tomorrow are seeking a written mandate from farmers, including a possible commitment to a new entity.
Sheep meat exports surged in February and an ''extraordinary'' jump in shipments to China drove that growth.
