Young rural banker Cath Lyall is bound for Adelaide. Miss Lyall (28) was named 2011 New Zealand Young Rural Achiever at the Royal Agricultural Society of New Zealand's recent conference.
Effluent compliance rates for Otago dairy farms last season were "pretty good" overall, Otago Regional Council senior environmental officer Richard Lord says.
When Mike Elliot could not get the growth rates he desired through winter to finish beef cattle - despite feeding as much as they wanted to eat - he looked for an alternative.
There is a "whole heap of untapped potential" in feeding triplet-bearing ewes better, Mararoa Station manager Tim Smith believes.
A deer progeny test under way is a new initiative for the industry.
Southland-based meat processor Alliance Group is one of seven successful applicants to benefit from a funding boost of more than $500,000 for entrepreneurial wool projects.
A red meat sector strategy co-ordinating group has been formed to promote, advise, monitor and report on the implementation of the sector's strategy, which is aimed at almost doubling the value of the sector's earnings.
Things are hotting up at Gillies Heating.
A freight-management company has been launched by Fonterra and Silver Fern Farms, servicing about one third of all containers leaving New Zealand.
Prices for most wool types continued their upward trajectory at last week's combined sale of North Island and South Island wool in Christchurch, despite an unfavourable currency factor.
Evan Ferris, of Waikaia, has won overall champion in the annual Otago-Southland beef competition.
Southland farmers Grant and Bernadette Weller have been named the national winners of the 2011 Ballance farm environment awards.
University of Otago graduate Sara Burgess - now working at the Fonterra Research Centre in Palmerston North - has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship.
How times have changed since Edna Horsnell was a land girl.
A non-genetically modified technique could provide the same project gains as the use of genetically modified grasses in New Zealand and without the risk of triggering consumer resistance, according to an investigation by the Sustainability Council of New Zealand.
Neil and Pam Cullen have left a lasting legacy on their Glenomaru Valley farm. The South Otago couple's passion for trees was recognised when they were awarded the New Zealand Farm Forestry Association's Husqvarna South Island farm forester of the year award.
Fonterra's having a party - and the community is invited.
The future is looking bright for functional food ingredient developer Seperex Nutritionals Ltd.
Fonterra chief executive Andrew Ferrier has been named 2011 Agribusiness Person of the Year.
PGG Wrightson has taken direct control of Wool Partners International (WPI), with WPI trading from today as PGG Wrightson Wool.
