When it comes to farm succession, everyone must be happy.
From entering the Ballance Farm Environment Awards to being named supreme winners of the Otago region, the journey has been "amazing" for South Otago couple Peter and Helen Gilder.
Young shepherds from around the world will converge on Oamaru next week for the first World Young Shepherds Challenge.
Beef and Lamb New Zealand and the Meat Industry Association have welcomed the prospect of a closer trade partnership with Taiwan, saying it is a key export beef market and also a significant sheep meat market.
Fonterra is dropping its milk payout forecast for the 2011-12 season by 45c, blaming a continued softness in commodity prices and a stronger New Zealand dollar.
Worries about the deteriorating global economy, along with concerns about the sustainability of high agricultural commodity prices, have put a dent in New Zealand farmer confidence.
Havoc has hit High St. Ian and Linda McCallum-Jackson, from free-range pig farm Havoc, at Hunter, near Waimate, have opened a store in Dunedin, opposite the Southern Cross Hotel.
The label says it all - Vindication.
Voting is open for Fonterra's board of directors and for the shareholders councillor elections.
Maniototo farmer Dawn Sangster is seeking a place on the Alliance Group board, motivated by a desire to contribute to New Zealand's sheep and beef industry and to put newly-honed leadership and governance skills to use.
Lean Meats has been hitting the road in the South Island, meeting farmers and telling its story.
The deadline is looming for owners of older pre-1990 forests, who have until November 30 to apply for compensation from the Government.
New Zealand export beef production is forecast to lift 3% in the 2011-12 season to 588,000 tonnes, of which 70% will come from prime cattle production, Rabobank's latest beef quarterly says.
Business is brisk for Yoann and Sandrine Feillet who operate an inbound French-speaking travel agency based in Dunedin. Established in 2004, Antipodes Travel organises custom-built itineraries for individual travellers and small groups, as Sally Rae reports.
Dairy commodity prices lifted on Fonterra's overnight online auction this week for the first time since early June.
Labour's proposal to hike high country property rents and drop the tenure review process in favour of direct acquisition is "tantamount to confiscation", Federated Farmers national board member William Rolleston says.
Quentin MacLeod jokes that he never got to play with a 250-tonne excavator in the sandpit at school.
Dunedin-based Craigs Investment Partners investment adviser Michael Milne has been shortlisted for the Financial Services Institute of Australasia's (Finsia) Pinnacle Awards.
Southland butcher Stephen Flynn is seeing sausages in his sleep.
New Zealand's wool industry - for too long fragmented and underperforming - desperately needs a strong, efficient, farmer-owned vertically integrated core business, New Zealand Wool Investment Company (Wool Co) director Anne Munro says.