After seven years, Mt Linton Station genetics manager Hamish Bielski is walking off the farm feeling he has achieved his goal of breeding low-input, high-output sheep.
Sustainability and environmental issues are at the forefront of the Thomas family's farming practices, as they try to preserve, for generations to come, their slice of land on the border of Fiordland.
Working for well-known, established farmers can make all the difference in a farm trainee's career, New Zealand Dairy Industry Award (NZDIA) Southland judges Amy and Graeme Johnston say.
Riverstone Holdings is confident its proposed Fiordland monorail will get a concession from the Department of Conservation, the monorail hearing in Invercargill heard yesterday.
The Southland Conservation Board believes it is impossible for a decision to be made on the proposed Fiordland monorail due to a lack of information, chairman Robin McNeill said at a hearing in Invercargill yesterday.
Fiordland National Park is at risk of being turned into a theme park if a proposed monorail through the Snowdon Forest goes ahead, a hearing in Invercargill heard yesterday.
New Zealand First leader Winston Peters claims Prime Minister John Key told ACT Party Epsom candidate John Banks who the next ACT Party leader should be during their now infamous "cup of tea" meeting.