Shawn McAvinue

More than 200 people attended the 22nd annual Fossil Creek Angus bull sale in North Otago last week.

More than 100 bulls were on offer at the Earnscleugh Station 37th annual sale in Central Otago earlier this month. After the sale dust settled, Shawn McAvinue spent five minutes talking to station...

A charitable trust is calling for farmers to help train the next generation of shepherds in the South.

The Dunedin City Young Farmers Club is relaunching. Reporter Shawn McAvinue talks to Young Farmers Otago Southland chairwoman Morgan Ramsay, of Balfour.

Putting down on paper a considered plan for grazing dairy cows on crops grown on a hilly paddock on a North Otago farm will make it easier to get a consent to continue doing it next winter, a...

Dynamic s a great word to describe New Zealand’s dairy farmers in 2022, South Island Dairy Event committee chairwoman Anna Wakelin says.

A couple of Strath Taieri stud owners are taking their sale results "on the chin" and using it as motivation to continue breeding better bulls.

Judith Speden, of Roxburgh, shares her recipe for the pumpkin soup she served at the 43rd annual Limehills Herefords bull sale in Millers Flat.

As the final trees are harvested in a forestry block on a South Otago sheep and beef farm this week, its owners are encouraging other southerners to look at production forestry as a way to add...

An East Otago stud which has been breeding Hereford cattle for more than 30 years is changing tack to include another herd, coloured black.

Sally Law shares her recipe for the chocolate fudge she served at the 11th annual Waimara Angus bull sale in East Otago.

Quality bulls and confidence in the beef industry is resulting in good clearances at sales in the South, agents say.

A family is realising a dream of "coming home" to own a farm in Western Southland.

A Hereford bull sold for "crazy money" at a bull sale in Teviot Valley last week.

A Hereford bull sold for "crazy money" at a bull sale in Teviot Valley last week.

In a new series, Shawn McAvinue asks food producers at rural events in the South to share their recipes.

Extreme weather conditions on a high-country station in the Maniototo allow for the best breeding of Charolais cattle in the country, Glen Ayr Station manager Drew Dundass says.

Millers Flat Collie Club president Cam Bain, of Moa Flat, will  compete in the North Island and New Zealand sheep dog trial championships in the King Country from Monday. Shawn McAvinue asks...

The 25th annual bull sale at Lone Pine Simmental stud in West Otago tomorrow will be the last.

After launching the organisation now known as Southland Rural Support Trust, farmer Russell Falconer is not seeking re-election at the trust’s annual meeting in Invercargill today.