Dairy supply is expected to be abundant through early 2012 as the southern hemisphere works to clear the results of a strong season and milk production continues to outpace demand in the northern hemisphere.
Oamaru accountant Adair Craik admits her resolve to help stem credit abuse in New Zealand is "a bit of a crusade".
An upturn in tree planting in New Zealand is being mainly attributed to the Emissions Trading Scheme.
Wool Co has failed to raise enough capital in its attempt to acquire New Zealand Wool Services International.
Christmas means havoc for Linda McCallum-Jackson. Mrs McCallum-Jackson and her husband, Ian, own the free-range pig farm Havoc, at Hunter, near Waimate. They also have a factory shop in Waimate and opened a store in Dunedin in October.
Mervyn Horrell admits he likes an "older type" of tractor.
Environment Southland has committed to introducing a policy that will require new dairy conversions to gain a resource consent from next April, and to consult intensively between now and then on the details.
Farm sales for the three months ended November are 85.3% higher than those in the corresponding period last year, figures released by the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand show.
Maniototo farmer Dawn Sangster has become the third female director in the history of meat company Alliance Group.
Dairy giant Fonterra is looking at reintroducing milk in schools nationally in 2013, while also continuing to review the price of milk in New Zealand.
A Christchurch wool exporter is considering closing down his New Zealand processing plant and moving to Melbourne if Cavalier Wool Holdings buys the wool scouring assets of New Zealand Wool Services International and disposes of the trading arm.
The release of a strategic review of the grape and wine sector provides a framework for the "profitable growth" of New Zealand wine, New Zealand Winegrowers chairman Stuart Smith says.
Fonterra will announce initiatives today to help make milk "more accessible" to New Zealanders.
The primary sector is still on target for record export income this year, a Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry report shows.
Fonterra farmers have received an early Christmas bonus - a 20c increase in the 2012 payout forecast.
A $15 million upgrade of beef processing facilities at the Alliance Group's Mataura plant is the biggest investment at the plant since it was built.
For Strath Taieri couple Ben and Anna Graham, irrigation provides certainty and gives balance to a dry property.
When it was revealed that Southland's Waituna Lagoon was critically ill, the news came as a "bolt of lightening", local farmer Gerald Spain said.
Two teams of volunteers marked International Volunteers Day last week by joining the Catchment Care programme to help enhance the native plant life in Southland and Waikato.
A move by Fonterra to improve water quality in lakes, rivers and streams has been welcomed by the Otago Regional Council and Environment Canterbury.
