As we say farewell to another year it is time again for the annual review of 2017 in the primary sector as seen by the Rural News editorial team.

The recent deal struck between the UK and EU over Brexit is indirectly good news for New Zealand.

The threat of a big drought is prompting Westpac to contact its farmer clients to see what help they may need.

Farmlands Cooperative has bought into the farm software firm FarmIQ, a developer of software for farming and agribusiness.

South Island dairy goat farmers still have no large-scale market for goat milk some 18 months after a Chinese-backed processing plant began to be built -- with some fanfare – at Ashburton.

The Irwin family -- Geoff, Lee and son Steve -- milk 330 cows on 83ha at Kiwitahi, near Morrinsville, in what Geoff describes as “a relaxed farming system”.

Landcorp, no longer threatened with sales of some of its farms, has reported an after-tax profit of $51.9 million for the year to August 31.

Registrations for IrrigationNZ’s 2018 national conference are now open.

China's estimated 2020 shortfall in the supply of dairy products will be 17 million tonnes liquid milk equivalent, says Tim Knox, MPI director of market access, trade and policy.

Kate Stewart, helped by a pet ram lamb Skippy, won this year’s Massey University Rural News Group-sponsored video competition.