Overrun with offers of live possums
Overrun with offers of live possums
There is no shortage of possums in built-up areas of Dunedin, judging by the response to a request from AgResearch scientists wanting to capture the animal alive.
Agriculture
Otago should cash in on clean-burning wood
Otago should cash in on clean-burning wood
Shaun Bowler extols the virtues of "wood energy".
Proactive response to wool report
Proactive response to wool report
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.
Fighting must stop, report says
Fighting must stop, report says
The beleaguered strong wool industry has been told to show maturity and stop fighting if it is to arrest continued declining prices.
$3m in carbon credits sold
$3m in carbon credits sold
City Forests has boosted its bottom line after signing a $3 million carbon credit deal.
Fresh take on family comedy
Fresh take on family comedy
Just when we were thinking it couldn't be done, TV3's Modern Family has single-handedly brought the family comedy back from the dead.
Abnormal conditions testing seasonal crops
Abnormal conditions testing seasonal crops
It never rains but it pours, and the summer weather so far has been a mixed blessing for market gardeners, orchardists and grape growers in Otago this season.
NZ company takes its honey to the world
NZ company takes its honey to the world
The New Zealand Honey Company was this year named New Zealand's fastest growing company with a 995% increase in sales between August 2006 and August 2009.
Resource consents for dairy farms
Resource consents for dairy farms
Three companies which want to develop 16 dairy farms in the Omarama and Ohau areas have already been granted approval by the Waitaki District Council.
Call for Government to act on cubicle stabling
Call for Government to act on cubicle stabling
Waitaki First has issued a challenge to the Government to "walk the talk" and get involved in the resource consents process to establish 16 new dairy farms with up to 17,850 cows at Omarama and Ohau in the upper Waitaki Valley.
'Contamination' from GE seed - officials
'Contamination' from GE seed - officials
Biosecurity officials say the genetic engineering "contamination" found in weeds outside a Plant and Food Research containment glasshouse at Lincoln appears to come from GE seed, which regulators allowed Massey University to import nine years ago.
GE weeds breach containment
GE weeds breach containment
Biosecurity officials are investigating whether genetically engineered plants have spread from a containment glasshouse on the Lincoln campus of Plant and Food Research, near Christchurch.
Top pipfruit system hailed after large crop
Top pipfruit system hailed after large crop
Central Otago pipfruit growers are at the forefront of a revolution which is sweeping the world's apple and pear markets.
$2.4b cut to dairy farmers' incomes
$2.4b cut to dairy farmers' incomes
Looming clouds of recession over New Zealand grew darker yesterday as the Fonterra dairy company dropped its forecast milk payout for this season by a further 90c - meaning combined farm incomes would be up to $2.4 billion less than last year.
Annual report shows pressure on Southland rivers
Annual report shows pressure on Southland rivers
Natural resources are under pressure and the environmental consequences of economic growth are chronic, Environment Southland's annual report states.
Dunedin firm with worldwide ambitions
Dunedin firm with worldwide ambitions
It sounds like something out of a Patricia Cornwell forensic crime novel. All food leaves a customised fingerprint and a group of Dunedin scientists and businessmen are tapping into that science to satisfy consumer concerns about food safety.
PGG-SFF deal likely to be drawn out further
PGG-SFF deal likely to be drawn out further
This week is is set to be crucial for the future of the stalled partnership between rural servicing company PGG Wrightson and Dunedin meat co-operative Silver Fern Farms.
Hopes river will hold back mite
Hopes river will hold back mite
A new varroa mite control area is expected to be created at the Waitaki River in a bid to buy time until the autumn release of a new biological control.
Turners and Growers has mixed outlook
Turners and Growers has mixed outlook
Turners & Growers Ltd is predicting a soft second half trading environment as consumers buy lower value food after reporting an increased interim profit.
Fears for further meatworks closures
Fears for further meatworks closures
Plunging sheep and lamb numbers have raised fears of further meatworks closures and redundancies.