Primary sector export revenue forecasts are up for all sectors, except dairy, in the year ended June 2016, the Situation and Outlook for Primary Industries' December update shows.
Wairarapa sheep farmer Tony O'Boyle is the new director on the board of Silver Fern Farms.
A forestry industry census next year aims to capture the contributions forestry and wood processing make to society, ensuring the sector's value is better understood by both policymakers and the public.
Meat Industry Excellence says it will carry on, if farmers want it, despite further resignations from the group's executive.
When Dutch couple Helen and Art Blom came to New Zealand in the mid-1990s, it was to be only a temporary stint.
New Zealand's wool industry could be ‘‘transformed'' by a research partnership that has secured $8.4million of Government investment over seven years, Science and Innovation Minister Steven Joyce and Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy say.
Dunedin agritech start-up AgriTrack is getting help to expand.
Southern Hemisphere Proving Grounds (SHPG), based high on the Pisa Range, has collected two international awards.
Fonterra's unsurprising decision to maintain its $4.60 forecast milk price reflects a belief that international dairy prices will continue to improve in the first half of next year.
Either no change or a small 10c trim is predicted when Fonterra updates its 2015-16 milk price forecast tomorrow.
Sick of cost overruns, or building projects not looking how you envisage? Mark Hastie may have the answer.
For the past six years, Beef and Lamb New Zealand has been Anne Munro's life.
Alliance Group shareholders are being urged to vote in this year's director elections. Six candidates are nominated for two vacancies.
'Tis the season to apply for the 2016 New Zealand Century Farm and Station Awards.
An investigation is under way to find the cause of a ''disappointing'' bovine Tb outbreak in three herds at Mt Cargill, on the outskirts of Dunedin.
When Maniototo farmers Johnny and Jane Girvan were looking for new carpet, there was one obvious choice.
Dairy prices lifted modestly in this week's GlobalDairyTrade auction, breaking a run of three consecutive falls.
Fewer ewe numbers, reduced lambing percentages and fewer hoggets mated has seen the smallest lamb crop in New Zealand since 1953.
Dairy farmers and industry groups have been quick to condemn the actions of a ''minority'' involved in mistreating bobby calves.
Average farm-gate lamb prices this season are predicted to ''nudge a few percent'' below last season.
