A man who has spent more than 40 years in the meat industry says the best thing that happened to the industry in NZ was the UK joining the European Union in 1973.

Primary product prices will fall further this year but remain at reasonable levels before some improvement in 2021, according to BNZ senior economist Doug Steel.

The wool industry is in limbo waiting to see what the world outlook is like “once countries start resuming normality of some description”.

Take the win but don’t bet the farm on it lasting.

Despite making a record profit of nearly $71 million, meat processor Silver Fern Farms Ltd has delayed paying any dividend.

Farmers on the lower east coast of the North Island have welcomed heavy rains, which have fallen in the last week.

Primary food production is in business. But it’s not business as usual – as we used to know it.

Chinese consumers are increasingly positive about New Zealand-produced beef, lamb and mutton in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a social media analysis by Beef + Lamb New Zealand.

COVID-19 had little impact on NZ sheepmeat and beef exports in February, says the Meat Industry Association (MIA).

Fonterra is selling its troubled China Farms business.