All Southland plus Otago’s Queenstown Lakes, Central Otago and Clutha districts are now declared officially in drought.

Meat co-op Alliance Group has doubled its operating profit to $20.2 million for the year to September 30, 2017.

Supermarket chain Countdown is partnering with global meat processor Hilton Food Group to build a $54 million plant at Otahuhu, South Auckland.

Farmer shareholder-owned meat company the Alliance Group has announced a bonus share issue following its positive report card.

Your canine crusader hears that the failed former meat company chief executive Graeme Thompson is about to publish a book about his life - More Paddocks to Plough.

Meat Industry veteran Sir Graeme Harrison reckons the sector was summed up by a 1994 cartoon captioned, ‘we can’t see, we don’t hear and we don’t talk’.

Meat processor Alliance has distributed $4.5 million to its farmer-shareholders as part of an initiative to reward loyalty.

Meat processor Alliance is investing $3.4 million in new processing technology as part of a wider programme to improve health and safety.

The chairman of an Iranian company that recently imported a trial shipment of New Zealand lamb says he would like to do more business, assuming the trial shipment goes well.

The first New Zealand lamb to be sent to Iran in 25 years will be cut and packed into containers at the Wellington meat processing company of Taylor Preston later this week.