Sally Rae

"A very proud day" was how High Country Medical Trust chairman Simon Williamson described the official opening of the Twizel Medical Centre on Saturday.

Prime Minister John Key's announcement New Zealand will have access to China's chilled meat market caught most by surprise yesterday but industry observers say the deal will be welcome, when it happens.

New Zealand First has lodged complaints with the Financial Markets Authority and the Companies Office Registries Integrity and Enforcement Team over the Silver Fern Farms-Shanghai Maling joint venture.

A weaker New Zealand dollar was not enough to offset lower international prices in the first half of the 2015-16 meat export season.

‘‘It's not your grandfather's merino''.

At first glance, the similarities between a Norwegian clothing company and a Gimmerburn farm might appear remote.

Ask young Emma Gillies how she fits everything into her day: school, ponies and sport, and she laughs.

Silver Fern Farms expects its full-year financial result to be "materially'' below last year's performance.

Dairy farmers with a detailed understanding of their businesses will be in the best position to ride out the industry's downturn, ANZ's latest Agri-Focus report says.

Volunteers are being sought to check fodder beet crops in Otago for possible velvetleaf contamination.

Matt Ross first arrived in North Otago "more by accident''.

Looking to the future, the news is ‘‘by no means all bad'' for the embattled dairy industry, Rabobank's latest dairy quarterly report says.

It was a classic garage start-up.

Senior entrepreneurs are globally the fastest-growing segment of entrepreneurship, as business reporter Sally Rae discovers.

Reuben Allan's dairy shed has one heck of a view.

It's all go for Fiona Parker.

Dairy prices edged up slightly in this week's GlobalDairyTrade auction, largely reversing the previous auction's fall.

Crowdfunding is being used in a bid to fund an online mapping tool to help in the war against rabbits.