South Otago dairy farmer Stephen Korteweg has been elected president of Federated Farmers Otago.
For 40 years, Five Forks farmer David Ruddenklau has been passionate about breeding Perendale sheep.
Young West Otago Hereford enthusiast Peter Kane is bound for Canada.
Proposed changes to the Otago Regional Council's water plan have knocked North Otago "from every side", North Otago Federated Farmers president Richard Strowger says.
The world's most expensive spice is being grown in the Mackenzie district.
Waihola eatery the Black Swan, which has been a popular stopping-place for many years, reopens tomorrow with new owners James and Lesley-Ann Adam.
A shift in sales focus towards Asia and Australia has contributed to a 3.1% increase in fruit and vegetable exports to $3.3 billion in 2011.
A business hub has been launched in South Dunedin.
Changes are inevitable. Not only is that now the motto of luxury Italian woollen fabric manufacturer Reda, but it was also a statement that was repeated during the New Zealand Merino Company's recent conference in Christchurch.
They have adorned the floor of the late Elizabeth Taylor's bedroom and the homes of Paris Hilton, Kanye West, Ernie Els and Magic Johnson.
The Maclean family, of Omakau, will next year mark 60 years of breeding Southdown sheep.
The Sutherland family, from Benmore Station, has been awarded the Otago Merino Association's clip-of-the-year title.
"One of the blackest days in New Zealand's agricultural history" is how one pig farmer describes a High Court judgement which does not support New Zealand Pork's challenge of new import health standards.
The gloomy commodity picture will weigh on New Zealand's economy and farmers are likely to revise their farm budgets downwards, Federated Farmers national president Bruce Wills says.
Dairy product prices have continued their slide in Fonterra's latest GlobalDairyTrade auction this week, reaching their lowest since August 2009.
Silere Alpine Origin Merino is preparing to go global.
Canterbury Employers' Chamber of Commerce chief executive Peter Townsend admits he under-estimated the "sheer bloody mindedness", determination and resilience of Christchurch's business community.
DCB International Ltd's logo says it all - a local company with a world of experience.
Richard Lang might be in only his first season in the dairy industry, but he is already making a name for himself.
It was cattle that brought the 2012 Otago Sharemilker/Equity Farmer of the Year winners James and Helen Hartshorne together.