Sally Rae

Jackie Freeman reckons there is ''more to goats than meets the eye''.

Matakanui Station has done it again.

Big is not necessarily better.

Alliance Group's newest independent director Vanessa Stoddart describes the meat industry as being ''at the heart'' of New Zealand. She talked to agribusiness reporter Sally Rae during the company's inaugural Pure South conference in Queenstown this week.

Agresearch's decision to make Invermay-based senior scientist Dr Julie Everett-Hincks redundant has been slammed as ''short-sighted'' and ''just ridiculous'' by a Southland sheep breeder.

Five Forks dairy farmer Lyndon Strang isn't expecting any surprises today when the dairy co-operative updates its forecast 2013-14 season payout.

Hunt tourism can make a high country station sustainable, as well as thrill the trophy seekers, writes Sally Rae.

Last month's trade surplus may have been weaker than both the market and economists' expectations, but was still the sixth successive surplus.

Will and Emily Murray, from Glenmore Station, have won the Otago Merino Association's clip-of-the-year title.

Peter Wardell has always been a believer in grasping opportunities.

''Capturing sunlight in a form you can eat.''

After joining Deer Industry New Zealand eight months ago as its new chief executive, Dan Coup learnt ''pretty quickly'' that confidence among producers was generally at a low ebb.

The biggest challenge for retirement village and aged care operator Summerset is not finding customers but keeping up with demand.

Southland farm manager Jared Crawford is already planning the next steps on his career path - both long and short term.

New Zealand's environmental and economic future is being threatened by the ''dire situation'' in the sheepmeat industry, Environment Southland chairwoman Ali Timms believes.

A referendum in October seeking to reintroduce a wool levy is an opportunity for sheep farmers to help shape the direction of the wool industry, Wool Levy Group chairwoman says.

Selling a bull for $33,000 at the national Hereford sale at AgInnovation was an ''amazing highlight'' for the Paterson family from Greenvale, near Gore.

It may have been his debut at the Hereford national show and sale - but young Middlemarch breeder Will Gibson made his mark.

When it came to warming up Queenstown's Public Kitchen and Bar over winter, the solution was simple - New Zealand wool.

Signing off the Otago Regional Council's 6A water plan was the ''big one'' when it came to Federated Farmers Otago's achievements in the past year.