Talley's Group-owned Open Country — New Zealand’s second-largest milk processor — has entered into a conditional agreement with the shareholders of Mataura Valley Milk to buy the business.

Nearly 100,000 pigs are raised each year at the nation's largest piggery in North Canterbury, writes Tim Cronshaw.

Big drops in sheep numbers have been halted, to the relief of sheep and beef farmers already more upbeat after stronger prices.

Little Ardroy Beef Company founder Wayne Cameron is about to put his Beef Bites on supermarket shelves after two years of testing recipes on his family.

Plant breeders are looking to Australia for a way to adopt new gene technology while still trading on New Zealand’s GMO-free status.

Animals eat more in winter, boosting sales for a North Otago pet food producer adding value to southern crops.

A tree industry expert and former minister of forestry has condemned "lock and leave" carbon farming, but says you still can not tell farmers what to do with their land.

A hairdressing voucher received as a gift last Christmas could well have inadvertently saved Susan Falconer’s life.

A man who struggled to keep a roof over his head in the North Island, and for a few weeks lived in Dolamore Park, has turned a corner with a new job with Alliance Group.

Central Otago vineyard manager Damon Lovell is "over the moon" to be representing his region at the Young Viticulturist of the Year competition next week.

A "record-breaking" number of students have applied to be part of the Growing Future Farmers programme next year but a lack of farm trainers is biting, especially in Otago and Canterbury.

Timaru reversible ploughman Bob Mehrtens is being tested on hard soils after reuniting with his trusty blue Ford 7740 tractor and plough for another tilt at the world title in the Czech Republic.

A holster worn on the hip which sterilises needles each time a farmer vaccinates cattle is the idea of a University of Canterbury student wanting to launch it after winding up her studies.