PGG Wrightson may not see all the $10 million loan it made to Wool Grower Holdings, the farmer-owned company it formed a joint venture with to create strong wool marketing company Wool Partners International.
Pressure is mounting on the Alliance board to not ignore merger overtures from Silver Fern Farms, even though some farmers are questioning the Dunedin co-operative's tactics.
A merger between the country's two largest meat co-operatives appears back on the horizon, but the relationship between Alliance Group and Silver Fern Farms seems once again to be strained.
New Zealand Merino chief executive John Brakenridge was named outstanding international business leader at the recent New Zealand Trade and Enterprise International Business Awards.
Two years after a group of Maniototo farmers won a legal battle to retain access to summer grazing blocks, Land Information New Zealand has called for public submissions on the original proposal.
Farm IQ has met its first year's goals, with 174 farmers registered and 20,000 sheep, cattle and deer electronically ear-tagged to monitor their performance.
Four farmers from Canterbury and Marlborough are the finalists in the Lincoln University Foundation's South Island Farmer of the Year competition.
The Queenstown District Council is still taking a High Court injunction to have a barrier removed from a road at Lake Hawea which blocks access to Kidds Bush, even though a farmer plans to reopen it four days after the November 22 hearing.
Fonterra is to develop a second dairy farm in China which will house 3000 milking cows in addition to the more than 6000 it has on an existing property.
Strong-wool growers are being invited to invest $65 million in what is being touted as the first opportunity for farmers to invest in a commercial company to try to improve the sector's profitability.
Rural servicing company PGG Wrightson is closing stores in Middlemarch and Clydevale, saying it is responding to reduced spending by farmers.
The Chinese-backed company wanting to buy the Crafar family dairy farms claims it meets the Labour Party's strict new foreign investment criteria, but the politicians say it does not.
Dunedin packaging company Tecpak Industries is to be sold to a subsidiary of privately-owned Australian company Pact Group, but it will be business as usual for Tecpak staff.
The debate on foreign ownership of farmland has so far ignored the issue of what was best for the land, a University of Otago academic said yesterday.
The message from Alliance Group venison marketing manager Katrina Allan to deer farmers was blunt: European consumers want our venison in their autumn.
Concerns about a looming shortage of wool resulted in auction prices rising last week despite an appreciating currency.
The Hunter Valley Station lessee has criticised as "an overreaction" a Queenstown Lakes District Council High Court application seeking an interim injunction to force the removal of a gate leading to the Kidds Bush campsite at the top of Lake Hawea.
Last month's storm seems not only to have killed more than a million lambs, but also taken with it the hope for more orderly behaviour by farmers and the meat industry.
Federated Farmers says it is not protecting farmers who maltreat animals but has complained to Agriculture Minister David Carter over the behaviour of Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry animal welfare inspectors who visited Southland farms in May.
A cocktail of storms in the South and the Canterbury earthquake will halve growth in agricultural production in the coming year and will also be felt in lower economic growth.
