Dairy giant Fonterra is looking at reintroducing milk in schools nationally in 2013, while also continuing to review the price of milk in New Zealand.
A Christchurch wool exporter is considering closing down his New Zealand processing plant and moving to Melbourne if Cavalier Wool Holdings buys the wool scouring assets of New Zealand Wool Services International and disposes of the trading arm.
The release of a strategic review of the grape and wine sector provides a framework for the "profitable growth" of New Zealand wine, New Zealand Winegrowers chairman Stuart Smith says.
Fonterra will announce initiatives today to help make milk "more accessible" to New Zealanders.
The primary sector is still on target for record export income this year, a Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry report shows.
Fonterra farmers have received an early Christmas bonus - a 20c increase in the 2012 payout forecast.
A $15 million upgrade of beef processing facilities at the Alliance Group's Mataura plant is the biggest investment at the plant since it was built.
For Strath Taieri couple Ben and Anna Graham, irrigation provides certainty and gives balance to a dry property.
When it was revealed that Southland's Waituna Lagoon was critically ill, the news came as a "bolt of lightening", local farmer Gerald Spain said.
Two teams of volunteers marked International Volunteers Day last week by joining the Catchment Care programme to help enhance the native plant life in Southland and Waikato.
A move by Fonterra to improve water quality in lakes, rivers and streams has been welcomed by the Otago Regional Council and Environment Canterbury.
Energy Mad, the Christchurch-based company that makes Ecobulb energy-saving light bulbs, has launched two Ecobulb programmes in Germany through its distributor there.
Global agri-commodity prices are forecast by Rabobank to be "down but not out" next year.
Cavalier Wool Holdings has rejected a suggestion that wool prices could drop by up to $2 a kg if it buys the wool-scouring assets of New Zealand Wool Services International.
Dairy Women's Network is aiming to reduce the number of women killed or injured in quad bike accidents in New Zealand.
Eddie Todd was always interested in horses and leatherwork.
It is the end of an era for Milton-based Potae Shearing Ltd.
Dunedin will host the South Island Dairy Event next year for the first time in the event's 14-year history.
A new clause in Fonterra's terms of conditions of supply, requiring farmer suppliers to keep stock out of waterways, will contribute to the quality of New Zealand's lakes, rivers and streams, the dairy co-operative says.
The pending closure of the Alliance Group's Sockburn plant will provide significant cost savings on an ongoing basis with the site still to be sold, the company says.