Dairy giant Fonterra has attacked proposed changes to raw milk regulations, saying profits will head overseas and it will hinder rather than help New Zealanders get access to affordable milk.
Outram watchmaker Jim Hay feels for his colleagues in the trade in Christchurch.
Chris Steele was about 10 when he first started helping in the sheep pens at the Maniototo A and P Association's show.
Energy Mad, which listed on NZX in October, has slashed its full-year earnings forecast from $3.5 million to about $1.1 million.
It is dancing like you have never seen before.
Let the contest begin.
Burns Pollock has, what he describes, as a "fatal fascination" for artefacts.
A top price of $12,000 was achieved for a Texel ram at the Gore A and P Association's ram fair last week.
Fonterra has broken its record for the highest export month, dispatching 246,000 tonnes of dairy products during December and boosting New Zealand's economy by $1.3 billion.
Dairy commodity prices lifted 1.5% on Fonterra's overnight online auction this week, clawing back from a price drop in the previous sale two weeks ago.
A 10.9% increase in sales of new quad bikes nationally last year is "positive economic news", Federated Farmers president Bruce Wills says.
A former Otago couple are out to take the energy bar market by storm.
Strawberries are off the menu at Keens Berry Farm in North Otago for the first time in more than 50 years.
Zara Crutchley was always destined for a career in the rural sector.
Chris Hampton enjoys the challenge of breeding animals, be they sheep or goats.
Beef was one of only two commodities to record a lift in the ANZ commodity price index for December, rebounding 12% in the month.
It's all about recycling knowledge. Samantha Berry is launching a new business on March 1 called UniTutor, an online website where University of Otago students can find private tutors for specific university papers.
While the hit to agricultural GDP in the South will ultimately depend on the weather from now on, the signs are not good with the dry conditions coming so early, and February - usually the driest month of the year - still to come, a BNZ report says.
Several independent advisers are examining Fonterra's Trading Among Farmers (TAF) scheme to ensure it will preserve 100% farmer control and ownership, as part of a comprehensive due diligence process.
That elusive work and life balance; for many families, it's an often exhausting juggling act. Business reporter Sally Rae speaks to two Dunedin couples who successfully manage to keep things in proportion - while keeping sane.
