When Fiona Walker found out she had been selected as a judge for the world shearing and woolhandling championships, she "did a jig" at the mailbox.
Dunedin firm Keogh McCormack has expressed significant concerns surrounding the lack of regulations in the property management industry. It believes monies are at greater risk than most landlords and tenants perceive, as Sally Rae reports.
In-market lamb prices are continuing to retreat from their record highs in mid-2011.
A speciality grocery retailer's decision to slash the price of milk to $1 a litre has been praised by Federated Farmers for "kicking off a supermarket price war" - at least in one location.
It is a big week in the South for shearers and woolhandlers.
Telford will host the Otago-Southland regional final of the National Bank Young Farmer Contest this Sunday.
New Zealand Wool Services International (WSI) has recorded a group net profit after tax of $1.801 million for the six months to December 31.
Grant and Cathy Watts are keen to encourage others to get involved in showing Highland cattle.
Australian sheep classer Gordon McMaster could have taken a very different career path - if it had not been for his father.
As a chartered accountant for more than 30 years, Dave McPhedran reached the stage where he wanted to offer more than just traditional accounting services.
Buyers from Waimate and Palmerstoncompeted with North Otago buyers for a small yarding of 2500 breeding ewes at the annual Oamaru ewe fair last week.
The latest in rural technology, equipment and ideas will be on display at the three-day Southern Field Days at Waimumu this month.
The ANZ commodity price index has registered its first monthly increase since May last year, rising 1.2% in January.
University of Otago commerce student Hayden Kerrisk admits to being "not much of a note-taker".
Excellent crop yields are being achieved by Biodiesel New Zealand's farmer suppliers this season, with about half the 2012 autumn oilseed rape crop harvested.
KiwiNet has launched an online innovation database which will enable businesses, entrepreneurs and investors globally to view a diverse range of technologies and expertise in New Zealand's research organisations.
The service sector returned to a a more subdued level of expansion in December, the latest BNZ-BusinessNZ performance of services index shows.
Reserve Bank Governor Alan Bollard will step down from the role in September.
The New Zealand Government could have faced an international law suit for breaching its free trade agreement with China if it had declined the Shanghai Pengxin purchase of the Crafar farms, University of Auckland law professor Jane Kelsey believes.
There will be a whole lot of hopping going on at the Southern Wide Tough Enough To Wear Pink rodeo at Waikouaiti on Saturday.