Tim Cronshaw

French owners of jam, juice and sauce company Barker’s will start processing at a new factory near Geraldine by the end of the year as part of a $50 million to $60m expansion project.

South Canterbury will be the undisputed home base for butter making in the South Island after Fonterra signed off a $75 million expansion project at its Clandeboye site.

Canterbury's family-owned Carrfields Group is developing a multimillion-dollar research and development farm for seed and plant innovation.

Canterbury farmers are calling for the processing of resource consents costing up to $100,000 to be renewed to go on hold until the government’s overhaul of the Resource Management Act (RMA).

North Canterbury farmers are continuing to count up the losses from severe winds leaving a trail of destruction on Culverden farms.

A young couple are making faster progress in dairying after the introduction of a new equity partnership by state-owned farmer Pāmu, writes Tim Cronshaw.

The Canterbury A&P Show has bounced back from near cancellation last year to have full livestock pens and trade exhibitor sites.

Canterbury's family-owned Carrfields Group is developing a multimillion-dollar research and development farm for seed and plant innovation.

South Canterbury farmers leaned on extra supplementary feeding to get them through a slow spring nipping into milk production.

Leeston beekeeper Barry Hantz is scrambling to bounce back from a poor honey-making season and, more lately, is having to deal with weak queen mating.

The phones are running hot as farmers dial in insurance claims climbing to over $10 million already for weather damage, in which southern farms were hit hard.

Small airline Originair is operating new weekday and Sunday flights connecting Blenheim and Christchurch.

Small airline Originair is operating new weekday and Sunday flights connecting Blenheim and Christchurch.

WorkSafe inspectors will visit 1000 farms before the end of the year, focusing on the safety of quadbikes and other risks to prevent agriculture becoming the deadliest sector in New Zealand again.

Waimate's farming community has an upgraded Farm Source store after Fonterra shifted the operation to a new site.

The collapse of large retailer Smiths City has liquidators expecting many creditors will go unpaid after adding up more than $26.8 million in liabilities.