High country farmers say their relationship with the New Zealand Fish and Game Council has been damaged by a failed High Court challenge which, it is understood, cost farmers more than $200,000 to defend.
The South has avoided the worst of the economic recession, Finance Minister Bill English told party faithful in Timaru at the weekend.
Southern farmers farmers need to prepare to live with the clover root weevil (CRW) as it is only a matter of time before it becomes well established.
Federated Farmers is taking the Queenstown Lakes District Council to the Environment Court, claiming a proposed plan change discriminated against farmers who have gone through tenure review.
Mention global warming mitigation policies and agriculture, and the rural sector starts speculating that the end of the world is looming.
Failed High Court action by New Zealand Fish and Game has provoked a farming leader to question whether public funds have been misappropriated and others to call for a review of the organisation's powers.
Lamb returns may have doubled in the last year, but farming leaders say the need to restructure the meat industry remains.
Employers will once again be rewarded for having low injury rates under proposed changes to ACC.
Farmers producing prime lambs are looking forward to doubling their returns this year, just 12 months after many were questioning whether lamb farming had a future.
The flow of New Zealand-trained medical professionals overseas may have been arrested by the Government's new voluntary bonding scheme.
Otago Regional Council has given an assurance it is not changing its funding for the control of bovine tuberculosis vectors.
There are fears the war against bovine tuberculosis could be compromised because of funding changes by regional councils who view it as having been won, says an industry leader.
Prime lamb prices may be soaring, but analysts still predict a 3% reduction in ewe numbers this year, following a 10% decline last year.
Co-operatively-owned companies are some of New Zealand largest businesses, but how do they perform financially? An analysis showed that while there were some questions, generally co-operatives performed well, agribusiness editor Neal Wallace reports.
Motorhomes appear to be one vehicle enjoying some insulation from the economic downturn.
New Zealand Dairies chairman Peter Lavery was philosophical about resigning as head of the South Canterbury dairy company this week.
The underwriter for a preference share issue by Blis Technologies has bought half the three million shares the Dunedin biotechnology company had on offer.
About 250 National Party delegates are expected to give Prime Minister John Key a hero's reception at the party's two-day mainland conference in Timaru, starting this morning. It will be the first formal gathering of the party and political wings since last year's election victory.
As workers prepare for further grim unemployment data tomorrow, a discussion document is warning against the Government's introducing job subsidies.
A second consecutive monthly rise in commodity export prices could provide the first signs of an economic recovery.
