Shawn McAvinue

South Otago ploughman Scott McKenzie is competing with a different kind of horsepower at the national championships in Middlemarch this weekend.

The aspirations of new Beef + Lamb New Zealand chief executive Alan Thomson and Jeff Farm general manager Michael Benton range from running the best industry group in the world to reducing lamb...

Sharemilkers Nick and Anieka Templer shared their aspirations at a field day in Northern Southland last week.

Salmonella is "slamming" cows on dairy farms in the South, Gore vet Karen Nicholson says.

Dairy farmers Paul and Isabel Murphy had a full clearance at their Shorthorn herd dispersal sale near Invercargill last week.

Some of the trophies on offer at a long-standing southern livestock competition are returning home with back-to-back winners.

About 60 people attended the West Otago A&P Society hogget and two-tooth ewe, beef and dairy heifer competition in Tapanui last week.

Sheep and beef farmer George McEwan is calling time on his family’s more than 70-year tenure of a farm on the Southland Plains.

Gore Sheep Dog Trial Club held its 116th annual trial on rolling tussock country  in the Hokonui Hills last week.

Life working and living in the Hokonui Hills is a "special time", Gore Sheep Dog Trial Club president Tain Laing says.

Dunedin student Georgia Te Raki is among the latest recipients of the Meat Industry Association scholarship programme.

Southern shepherd Lucia White is ready to take the first step of following in her grandfather’s footsteps.

Southland teenager Myah Dean is the winner of a prize to grow her dairy cattle showing knowledge.

Salmonella is "slamming" cows on dairy farms in the South, Gore vet Karen Nicholson says.

The McRae family are upscaling their sheep stud in Eastern Southland.

The Murphy family, who milk the largest Shorthorn herd in Southland, are calling time on more than a century with the British breed.

Salmonella is "slamming" cows on dairy farms in the South, a vet says.

A central Southland dog trial club with a more than 100-year history is unlikely to return.

A lengthy delay to making silage in Southland is over for a sheep farmer playing "catch-up" following a wet spring.