agribusiness

Although meat and dairying lifted manufacturing sales for the quarter to june by 0.4%, the rise was less than expected by analysts and may yet affect  pending gross domestic data for the period.

Good autumn conditions appear to be helping the rural real estate market, sales having increased 14.4% in the three months to March compared with the previous corresponding period (pcp).

Vegetables New Zealand has signed an agreement with the government to share the cost of managing biosecurity procedures as it faced being charged for some of the costs with no input otherwise.