Shawn McAvinue

The Otago Regional Council is urging farmers to consider the potential impacts of an El Nino summer and its effects on farm operations, soil moisture and water supplies.

Forecasters are warning an El Nino weather pattern is likely to bring a hot summer to the South this year.

The New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards will be in Queenstown next year.

The Southland Arable Research Hub is open for business.

A soil carbon measurement experiment is under way at the Southern Dairy Hub near Invercargill in a bid to shed light on carbon sequestration on New Zealand dairy farms.

Research on a South Island dairy farm shows farmers should be doing their homework on the type of supplementary feed they provide their cows, a ruminant feed manufacturer says.

Rural groups are committing to create a supportive and resilient environment for young people in the food and fibre sector.

Lush spring pasture can cause a "gastric catastrophe" in calves, Central Southland dairy farmer Suzanne Hanning warns.

A new report shows new and proposed environmental regulations are creating a significant financial burden on sheep and beef farmers in Otago and Southland.

Innovative farmer Leon Black is a pioneer in selecting stud sheep to reduce greenhouse gas emissions on his farm in Western Southland.

West Otago farmer Al Body is giving his time, land and ingenuity to a detainment bund project in a bid to reduce storm water contaminants entering the Pomahaka River.

Southern Velvet Buyers owner and Deer Genetics NZ stud master Kelly Bennett, of Geraldine, travelled the South buying hard antlers and buttons last week.

A wetland workshop in the Maniototo was "inspiring", an organiser says.

An application for a Swiss company to buy an Otago sheep farm to convert to forestry has been declined, making it one of the first decisions to be made under updated legislation.

Farmers will get their chance to hear from the head of meat processor Alliance Group when a roadshow visits the South next month.

A Southland woolhander played a supporting role in the setting of a world shearing record last week.