The Carvers won the national ambassador title for the Ballance Farm Environment Awards

A Trust farm near Kaikohe has won the Ahuwhenua Trophy Maori Excellence in Farming Award.

Decline of sheep numbers in the region during the past decade could not be ignored.

Could the future of meat and milk be heading for a laboratory?

Mr McLeod (66) has just ended a 46-year unbroken career at Alliance Group's Pukeuri plant.

Chinese plans to reboot the ancient Silk Road routes could benefit Silver Fern Farms

Alliance Group's Pukeuri meat plant upgrade will improve health and safety and efficiency

The Country: Rabobank’s Senior Animal Proteins Analyst discusses the global supply of animal protein and we discover there’s a hell of a lot of pigs in China!

Winston Peters talks to Jamie about tomorrow's Budget, myrtle rust and Silver Fern Farms.

The winners have been announced at the Child Cancer Fleece Competition.

A less-known breed tops results in early tests analysing cattle breed performance

Pongaroa farmers Shaun and Tracie Baxter have won big at the Ballance awards.

Nothing much has happened from last week except that it feels a bit more like winter.

"Connectedness" (establishing the genetic links between different flocks) was discussed

Eight of the 11 finalists in the New Zealand Ewe Hogget Competition are from Otago.

Silver Fern Farms is proposing to close its Fairton sheepmeat plant

The weaner pens were full at Rongotea with buyers favouring a lighter hoof

2017 Otago Ballance Farm Environment Awards winners host field day on their property.

SFF closure of Fairton plant raises questions over govt support for Chinese interests.

Jamie catches up with the CEO of Alliance Group for an update on the meat industry.

There was a welcome drop in lamb entries at the Feilding Prime Stock Sale yesterday

The annual bull sales held in Tararua are an exciting and important time for stud owners.

Thursday saw a yarding of just over 600 beef cows sell to very strong demand.

The rain is back but so far it is very local. Here is the latest stock report.

"It's an exciting but nervous time. Your cattle have to be absolutely right on the day"

Bull selection is "a personal thing" and everyone's needs are different.

A moderate yarding of 16,500 sheep were presented on a fine and blue sky day.

The Country: We ask Murray Taggart, Chairman of the Alliance Group, which is New Zealand’s largest sheep meat processor, if the current high lamb prices are sustainable into the 2017-18 season.

Two separate New Zealand commodity price indexes have the country's exports in good health

Export prices for lamb push higher as solid demand overseas coincides with soft supply