* WHO OWNS WHAT Interests associated with Craig Norgate and Baird McConnon own: 30% of PGG Wrightson 17.25% of NZ Farming Systems Uruguay PGG Wrightson owns 11.5% of NZ Farming Systems Uruguay Interests associated with Murray Flett own: 1.6% of NZ Farming Systems Uruguay * WHO'S ON THE BOARD Craig Norgate and Murray Flett are directors of PGG Wrightson and NZ Farming Systems Uruguay Baird McConnon is a director of PGG Wrightson * THE TRANSACTION On September 26, PGG Wrightson agreed to buy $21 million of shares in Farming Systems Uruguay from interests associated with Craig Norgate, Baird McConnon and Murray Flett.

By MORGAN, Jon The country's biggest meat company intends to intervene in the way lambs are reared because farmers aren't heeding calls for change to closer match international markets. Farming editor Jon Morgan reports.

By HUNTER, Tim IN SEPTEMBER, when shareholders in Silver Fern Farms vote on whether to sell half their company for $220 million, the money may not be the deciding factor. Equally important, or perhaps more so, will be the character of the people they are being asked to do business with.

By WOOD, Alan LISTED farm services company PGG Wrightson says it expects the dairy boom to continue for another year, despite a drought in much of New Zealand.

By CRONSHAW, Tim TIM CRONSHAW takes a whimsical look at the highs and lows of the farming year. . A IS FOR AGRICULTURE. Despite what the techno-geeks and cinematic literati think, agriculture still drives 17% of the New Zealand economy each year.