Sally Rae

A ''high level'' proposal is circulating about meat processors over a new market development plan for sheepmeat and beef.

When Julie Dee headed to the Dairy Women's Network conference in Invercargill in March, she was feeling a little disillusioned.

Outram farmer Duncan Wells has a top crop of fodder beet.

Meat Industry Excellence chairman John McCarthy has scotched a suggestion the organisation will unveil a plan for a new export meat co-operative this week.

It's a long way from a merino sheep grazing in the vast Central Otago countryside to a customer pulling on a pair of SmartWool socks somewhere in the world.

It was close but no cigar for Danseys Pass farmer Neville Hore at the New Zealand sheep dog trial championships at Moawhango, near Taihape.

Regina Speer might be living thousands of kilometres from home - but she could not be happier.

Ask Graham Hunter how many trees he has planted through the years and there is a pause.

Queenstown-based technology company Tapp has launched an equity crowdfunding campaign to enable it to scale up its taxi app operation.

Big is better for Dunedin retailer Diane McKenzie.

The 2015-16 season is shaping to be a distinctly below-average one for dairy farmers.

The Sutherland family from Benmore Station, near Omarama, are unequivocally passionate about breeding merino sheep.

Dave and Janene Divers first entered the Otago Ballance Farm Environment Awards four years ago.

High on a hill overlooking North Otago farmland is a very special pine tree. Reporter Sally Rae explains why.

Generations of Maniototo farming families have headed for the hills each summer, moving their sheep into the mountains for summer grazing. The importance of having access to that land has been highlighted by the drought conditions being experienced in Otago, as Sally Rae reports.