Shawn McAvinue

Farm machinery sales in the South are being bolstered by a "buoyant" dairy farming industry, a dealership chain head says.

Just like a crop circle in a maize field, mystery surrounds how a cricket pitch appeared in a swede paddock in Northern Southland.

Sting-riddled students are removing wasp nests in Dunedin for free to further their research to stop the invasive pests costing the economy more than $130million a year.

A frustrated West Taieri farmer is calling for the Otago Regional Council to do better so he can achieve his dream of building a shed to keep his cattle warm and dry.

A Strath Taieri pub with a colourful history of more than 150 years has been listed as a residential lifestyle block, plunging farmers into "mourning".

A Dunedin sheep farmer made his annual trip to Balclutha to sell his flock of lambs last week.

A frustrated West Taieri farmer is calling for the Otago Regional Council to do better so he can achieve his dream of building a shed to keep his cattle warm and dry.

Outside the wire of a South Otago prison, inmates work on a dairy farm in hope of a brighter future.

It is Popeye’s worst nightmare — supermarket giant Countdown hit by a spinach shortage.

Help is only a call away.

A South Otago drover nicknamed Pies continues to "keep the cattle flowing".

Anna Craig knew it was the right time to get cracking and launch a new brand to market the free-range eggs produced on her family’s farm in North Otago.

Shepherds and working dogs had to wait for a thick blanket of fog to lift for the Strath Taieri Collie Club dog trials to start in Middlemarch on Friday.

Farmers were loving bidding for working dogs as records were broken in South Otago on Valentine’s Day.

West Otago dairy farmer Lloyd McCall will seize any opportunity to talk about the Pomahaka Water Care Group.

Ageing farmers are a concern for new Otago Farmers Market general manager Michele Driscoll.

Speed limits near rural schools need to be lower than a Government proposal, Rural Women New Zealand says.

A nearly 140mm downpour on a Strath Taieri farm was a "game-changer" but more rain is needed, a farmer says.

A former Taieri farm girl got her dying wish to say goodbye to the homestead she was raised in.