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Deer milking, manuka honey, sheep milking and blueberries are among Landcorp's options for land it had planned to convert to dairy farms.

Young design and architecture students who spent a weekend in a woolshed in the central North Island have gone away ecstatic about wool.

Sheep and beef farmers, especially in the South Island, are going to take a substantial hit in their incomes this year as lamb prices weaken.

Alliance Group is now processing, packaging and exporting Pure South lamb directly to a Spanish supermarket retailer.

A North Island trial comparing the value of lambs sired by low versus high genetic merit rams validates that using genetic data does pay off.

As the hot sun beats down on a sharp rocky Canterbury hillside, three sheep tentatively step forward out of the safety of the yards.

Sheep have been raised for their milk for thousands of years and were milked before cows.

The wool market in both the North and South Island continues to show resilience.

In a move that illustrates the current parlous state of the dairy industry, the country's biggest farmer is pulling out of dairy and moving into sheep milking.

The Government's investment of $260,000 for the Golden Shears World Shearing and Wool Handling Championships in 2017 is a vote of confidence in the Southland region.