Otago has recorded the largest increase nationally for the number of farm sales in the three months ended December, compared to the same period in 2012.
Otago-Southland strong Performance of Services Index (PSI) in November carried into December, although some levelling-off in the sector is evident, Otago-Southland Employers Association chief executive John Scandrett says.
When it comes to shaping surfboards, Jeremy Buis admits he likes doing some ''outside the square stuff''.
Mutton exports have risen significantly over the first quarter of the 2013-14 meat export season and China is the largest market.
Biddy Huddleston's job is all about putting Young Farmers ''out there''.
Mighty Mix dog food has come a long way from being whipped up in a high-country kitchen.
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Prices lifted 1.4% in this week's GlobalDairyTrade auction with an apparent convergence in product prices being cited as encouraging for Fonterra.
Fonterra has raised 1.25 billion Chinese renminbi (about $NZ250 million) through a five-year ''dim sum'' bond issue, to strengthen and support its China business.
Federated Farmers believes a ''new attitude'' shown by Environment Southland is starting to pay off and the regional council is now actively working alongside dairy farmers.
Central Otago's Lowburn Collie Dog Club marks a major milestone this week with the holding of its centennial trials on Friday and Saturday.
John Falconer describes New Zealand's deer farmers as being innovative, passionate and proud.
Silver Fern Farms is launching a branded retail range of lamb into Shanghai, with the first online sales expected in March.
Large-scale farming business Craigmore Farming has received Overseas Investment Office approval to buy two large dairy farms in North Otago.
A bumper ram sale in Maniototo this week resulted in a total clearance of the Duncan family's 239 rams on offer, for an average price of $1097.
Federated Farmers believes Fonterra's recall of thousands of bottles of cream shows the dairy giant's quality assurance systems work - but Labour says questions will again be raised about New Zealand's food safety systems.
Port of Tauranga has shown its cards over its move to take a 50% shareholding in PrimePort Timaru, with the purchase of land at Rolleston to develop an intermodal freight hub.
If New Zealand's red meat industry was a schoolchild, it would be the C+ pupil, Federated Farmers meat and fibre chairwoman Jeanette Maxwell reckons.
A 1% increase in the ANZ commodity price index last month has seen the index lift to its second-highest level on record.
Thirty years after his birth, two offspring of a Romney ram, owned by Otago stud breeder David Robertson, will go through the sale ring in Gore tomorrow.
