Federated Farmers' decision to support Meridian Energy's appeal to build a wind farm in Otago was a tangible sign the lobby group was taking a tougher stance in protecting property rights, according to its president.
The strong wool industry is on its knees, with prices and production on a seemingly unstoppable decline. A report looking at the viability of the industry this week suggests a solution, but Agribusiness editor Neal Wallace reports bad blood and mistrust could prevent the sector from grabbing what could be its last chance for survival.
Telecom is still searching for the reason why some voice services and up to 20% of text messages sent on its XT network in the South failed on Monday night.
New Zealand's fastest-growing company last year has signed a multimillion-dollar supply contract with a major United Kingdom supermarket and also announced it was seeking new capital to fund market expansion.
Agriculture Minister David Carter has warned the wool sector not to drop the ailing industry's latest survival blueprint as he said has happened with previous documents.
The beleaguered strong wool industry has been told to show maturity and stop fighting if it is to arrest continued declining prices.
Southern Telecom XT network customers yesterday experienced a second evening of text-messaging problems, but Telecom does not believe the failures are linked to last month's much wider network outage.
Otago logging contractor Dave Paul put his new specialist forest harvesting machine through its paces at a City Forests-owned block near Lake Mahinerangi recently.
The promoters of a new dairy factory in South Canterbury are negotiating a cornerstone shareholding but have also extended its capital-raising deadline to other investors.
The Department of Conservation believes it had the legal go-ahead to enter and make changes to the Tailings Creek hut.
Maniototo farmers have accused the Department of Conservation of interfering with the Tailings Creek musterer's hut they own in the Mt Ida range.
For more than 100 years, five generations of Maniototo farming families have grazed sheep on the Mt Ida Syndicate, in the mountain range north of Naseby.
A leading fertiliser manufacturer is warning farmers that prices will start to rise as international demand grows.
Dunedin energy users could be early beneficiaries of the Government's electricity reforms, with news yesterday Genesis Energy is entering the market.
The rapid recovery in international food prices could have unintended consequences, with fears input costs could rise sharply and some products may face a price correction.
The country's largest dairy exporter has welcomed the pending launch by the New Zealand Stock Exchange of a dairy futures market, saying it wants such a risk management tool.
Andy West has regularly championed the value of science in agriculture, and leaves his position as chief executive of AgResearch with some business unfinished.
A new genetic product, or SNP Chip, aimed at assisting sheep breeders and Angus beef breeders with molecular breeding values, has been launched in the United States and will be available in New Zealand later this year.
Dunedin's sister city relationship with Shanghai will ensure city and business representatives get preferential treatment at the Shanghai World Expo, which opens in May.
The New Zealand Stock Exchange expects to launch its first dairy futures market in June, initially offering whole milk powder contracts but eventually extending it to other dairy products.
