A challenging year for farmers is expected to be reflected in PGG Wrightson's full-year result, the farm services company predicting a substantial drop in earnings.
Big increases in irrigated land area over the past five years have helped support substantial growth in agricultural production.
Asked about finances available to cover the cost of fire, Mr Young said Doc carried a whole raft of insurance and it was ''well covered''.
In 2004, Birchwood Station, in the Ahuriri Valley, was sold by the Williamson family to the Nature Heritage Fund for $10 million.
Mitchell and Webster Group, the winner's of this year's Otago Ballance Farm Environment Awards, will host a field day on Wednesday.
Jo Morshuis reckons the secret to her success in business has been always doing ''everything from the gut''.
Last week marked the end of an era at Gem Lake Station with the last cattle weaning muster of its kind, due to the completion of tenure review. Agribusiness reporter Sally Rae and illustrations editor Stephen Jaquiery went along for the ride.
Farming is not going to get any easier as farmers meet the expectations of ''everybody outside of farming'', Federated Farmers Otago president Stephen Korteweg says.
Export volumes of lamb in March increased by a third, or almost 13,000 tonnes, compared with 2012, with virtually all of the additional volume destined for China.
Kia Motors' new Dunedin dealership in Kaikorai Valley Rd will be officially opened today. The development cost about $600,000, Dunedin Kia (also widely known as Carbase) dealer principal Neil Videler said.
Spring could bring as much as a 10% decline in national lamb numbers, the fewest since the mid-1950s, a BNZ report says.
China is ''open for business'' - but it is not going to wait around for New Zealand to get its act together, Oritain Global chief executive Dr Helen Darling says.
Life has been hectic lately for Dean Rabbidge.
''Band-aid solutions'' might be needed to avoid potential problems in the red meat sector next season, but a long-term view is essential to finding the right solutions, Meat Industry Excellence chairman Richard Young says.
Sue Peoples wants to help make a difference to women involved in the dairy industry.
A supply offer enabling Fonterra farmer shareholders to sell the economic rights of some of their shares will open today. They will have the opportunity to offer to sell the economic rights of up to 25% of their minimum required shares (wet shares) to the Fonterra Shareholders Fund.
Details of how the Invermay campus will be affected by AgResearch's proposal to invest $100 million in facilities and resources over the next four years have not yet been finalised.
Wayne McNee has resigned as head of the Ministry for Primary Industries to become chief executive of dairy farmer co-operative Livestock Improvement Corporation.
In this week's In Business feature, Sally Rae talks to Perand Rachel Lindstrand, of Melt Candles.
Murray and Heidi Rixon get a real buzz from sharing their love of bees.