Middlemarch next stop on wellness tour
Middlemarch next stop on wellness tour
Sheep and beef farmer and Country Living presenter Matt Chisholm is bringing his Time Out Tour to Middlemarch on Friday.
Shawn McAvinue
At the Earnscleugh bull sale
At the Earnscleugh bull sale
Sub-zero temperatures did not deter scores of people attending Earnscleugh Station’s 38th annual bull sale near Alexandra last week.
Black beauty
Black beauty
Rising 2-year-old bull Peters Angus 21241 sold for the top price of $12,000 at the Peters Angus 14th annual bull sale in Beaumont last week.
Edi-bull: Vic's ginger crunch
Edi-bull: Vic's ginger crunch
In a series, Shawn McAvinue asks the people making the food served at bull sales in the South to share their recipes.
Lay of the land
Lay of the land
New AgResearch modelling on the impacts of climate change on lamb survival and lambing date in the South shows a potential for farmers to be able to schedule lambing up to 20 days earlier than their current practice by 2040.
M Bovis a 'traumatic' time for former RST chair
M Bovis a 'traumatic' time for former RST chair
Central Southland dairy farmer John Kennedy finds it hard to talk about a tough period of his life.
An eye on the future
An eye on the future
Sheep and beef farmer Jimmy Hill has launched a Simmental stud in Teviot Valley.
Cherry orchardist Central’s young grower of the year
Cherry orchardist Central’s young grower of the year
Cherry orchard manager Greg Durand is the winner of the Central Otago Young Grower of the Year competition, and is off to the national final in October.
Exemplary operators
Exemplary operators
Strath Taieri farmers Steven and Kellie Nichol have been crowned the 2023 National Ambassadors for Sustainable Farming and Growing and are the recipients of the Gordon Stephenson Trophy.
Prize trip an eye-opener
Prize trip an eye-opener
Dunedin schoolboy Cormac McAvinue was a winner of an annual competition to be able to snorkel at Poor Knights Islands marine reserve off the east coast of Northland.
$9000 for sale’s top lot
$9000 for sale’s top lot
A price of $9000 was received for the top lot at the Waikaka Herefords annual bull sale last week.
Deep and powerful
Deep and powerful
Rising 2-year-old bull Limehills Belter 210473 sold for the top price of $27,000 at the Limehills Herefords 44th annual sale in Millers Flat last month.
Prize trip an eye-opening experience
Prize trip an eye-opening experience
Dunedin schoolboy Cormac McAvinue (9) was a winner of an annual competition to be able to snorkel at Poor Knights Islands marine reserve off the east coast of Northland. His father, Allied...
Change of tack to invest in gold
Change of tack to invest in gold
When Owen and Cathy Copinga depart their dairy farm and Holstein Friesian stud in Western Southland for the final time today, they close a chapter more than two decades in the making.
Making bull sales a family affair
Making bull sales a family affair
Jono Cochrane now has the run of the family farm in South Otago since his parents moved to the Lakes District but he and his dad John continue to collaborate when it is time to introduce new...
Peek enjoying return to trialling
Peek enjoying return to trialling
Southland dog triallist Russell Peek had nothing left to prove when he gave up the sport as his wife Lynda began battling cancer for five years until she died in 2020.
Bull fetches top price of $23,000
Bull fetches top price of $23,000
Stud bull Kincardine Stormmaker 118 fetched the top price of $23,000 at the Kincardine Angus on-farm sale in Lake Hayes last week.
More entries to baleage competition expected
More entries to baleage competition expected
An outstanding spring and summer for making supplementary feed in Western Southland may increase the number of entries in an annual hay and baleage competition next week but will hopefully not...
Various ways to minimise bearings
Various ways to minimise bearings
Theories to prevent bearings in ewes include avoiding gorge feeding and shearing them in the middle of winter to let the sunshine in, a vet says.
Farm plans a second covenant
Farm plans a second covenant
Simon and Kirstin Engelbrecht are set to increase the long-term permanent protection of the biodiversity on their sheep and beef farm in East Otago.