The North Island sale saw prices lift on the back of a weaker New Zealand dollar and steady off-shore interest, NZ Wool Services International Ltd's marketing executive, Paul Steel, reports.

Agri-specialist lender Rabobank says that investing in premium wine can be a complicated and disjointed process.

New Zealand Winegrowers has launched a Mandarin-language website to support ongoing marketing activities in China.

Independent meat company Affco’s chief executive Hamish Simpson has become the latest high profile departure from the industry.

Milk prices may have stabilised and will rebound next season, beef prices will hold and horticulture, particularly kiwifruit, could be the star performer this year.

 New Zealand agritech exports earned their producers $1.2 billion in 2013. $1 billion had long been the annual export target of the sector.

Dairy farmers should beef up balance sheets to cope with global milk price volatility, says the head of herd improvement company CRV.

It is now four months since Rural News first reported on the deaths of Southland cows on swedes so I thought it would be a good time to determine that the investigation is on track and the correct questions are being asked.

AgResearch scientist Dr Phil Rolston has been awarded the Chinese government's most prestigious science award for his contributions to agriculture in China.

A SOFTER market was seen for most types in the first auction for 2015 of 13,200 bales of North Island wool, says New Zealand Wool Services International Ltd's general manager, John Dawson.