Forums on the "far-reaching" changes proposed in the way the Otago Regional Council deals with water quality are struggling to attract their target audience - farmers.
New Zealand is the Zsa Zsa Gabor of free trade deals, writes Peter Lyons. If we are not careful we will end up selling our "lifeblood" to fund our addictive consumption habits.
Eoin Garden looks at the future of the sheep and beef industry and examines recent reports that identify the need to change industry strategy away from throughput and on to customer needs and investment.
An agribusiness consortium has received tentative approval from the Government's Primary Growth Partnership (PGP) for a project to try to replicate aspects of the dairy industry and transform the meat industry.
Worsening dry conditions have forced rural farming leaders to seek help from the Government.
Kauru Hill farmer Bryce Burnett admits that before a recent family holiday he was "getting a bit annoyed" about the dry conditions.
Growing foreign interest in buying New Zealand farmland raises nationally significant issues about who benefits and the money trail, a leading primary sector academic says.
The Alderton family from Waitahuna were last night named winners of the Otago Ballance Farm Environment Awards.
New Zealand will support developing countries getting benefits from its Global Research Alliance on agricultural greenhouse gases for free, Prime Minister John Key said this morning.
Waitepeka Farm is about 1000ha, and farm manager for the past 12 years Peter Gilder said this was the annual maintenance fertilisation.
The future success of the Clutha District relies on the fortunes of its sheep and beef farmers, but the loyalty of its residents has played a major part in the way the district has survived the recession.
The company seeking funds to invest in farms says its focus is broader than just New Zealand.
Otago farmers are nervously eyeing the approach of winter, with autumn feed stocks depleted by a dry, windy summer.
Weather conditions, human activity (or a lack of it, in some cases) and a pest's increasing immunity to disease are keeping Central Otago farmers on their guard. The issue? Rabbits ... again.
The number of farms sold continued to fall over summer, with just 205 sales in the three months to February, less than a third of the number of sales reported for the corresponding period in 2008.
Fairlie farmer Anne Munro has been elected Meat and Wool New Zealand's new director for the Central South Island, unseating incumbent David Douglas.
Land agents should have vetted more closely the parties behind the failed bid to buy 28 Southland farms, a farming leader says.
The Environment Canterbury hearings process to decide on crucial water for 16 new dairy farms in the Omarama and Ohau areas will continue, despite the Government calling in effluent resource consent applications and handing them to a board of inquiry to consider.
Millions of dollars have already been poured into properties in the Omarama-Ohau areas which two development companies want to turn into nine dairy farms housing up to 10,850 cows.
Meat and Wool New Zealand has made 21 Wellington-based staff redundant as the producer board restructures in the face of farmers ending the payment of levies on wool.