Until recently alternative energy was a niche market, normally talked about by people who had goatee beards and wore sandals with white socks. How times change. 

While Subaru has never hit the top of the tree in the race for market share, it has over the years developed a loyal following in New Zealand, not least among those who saw the benefits the brand’s all-wheel drive (AWD) offered over its mainstream rivals.

Tough economic times don’t last, farmers who are happy to re-use one-use gloves do. 

A self-contained sheep and dairy farm has won the 2015 Southland Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA) supreme winner award.

For many in the dairy industry June 1 means one thing – time to move. As the new season starts, thousands of sharemilkers pack their cows into stock trucks and move equipment and families to new farms.

Family ownership business structure and a clear customer focus have steered animal nutrition company Nutritech International Ltd to its 100th birthday.

About 9000 Fonterra farmers have so far bought goods and services via the co-op’s new Farm Source rewards scheme, earning $3 million in reward dollars.

The rural sector needs to focus more on mental wellness and look at developing simple self-diagnostic tools, says a South Island professional development coach, Loshni Manikam.

"Right place, right time” is how Bob Rosevear describes the success of his Mahoe Farmhouse Cheese operation.

Southland farmers Yvonne and Steven Dennis are LIC Sire Proving Scheme farmers of the year.