Shawn McAvinue

If a new draft code of welfare for pigs gets approval, thousands of piglets will be crushed and piggeries will close, Otago pork producers say.

As more farms are sold for forestry conversion, Shawn McAvinue asks southern bull breeders: do you think the land-use change will soften demand at your upcoming sale? Clayton Peters of Peters...

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When Rural Livestock agent Don Roney retires at the end of next month, he will call time on a more than 50-year career.

In a bid to protect against the impact of dry conditions, a trial maize crop on a West Otago dairy farm will return next season and be more than twice the size.

The Angus bulls set to feature at a sale in Beaumont are in good nick despite dry conditions biting this season, a farm manager says.

Tips to battle "insidious" droughts and avoid a financial hangover were shared in Ōwaka and Clinton last week.

A group of South Auckland teenagers have been given a taste of rural life in West Otago.

The solid reputation of calves on offer at back-to-back sales on five stations in Upper Clutha attracted a good spread of buyers last week.

A dry summer "exacerbated" by a parched March has set records across the South, Niwa says.

Parts of the South have been the driest on record for the four past months.

Western Southland chef Cameron Davies is the only South Islander named to act as a leader, to drive innovation and creativity using New Zealand beef and lamb.

In a bid to awaken the soil on her Central Otago farm, Amanda Currie has turned her back on fertiliser, insecticides and pesticides.

Prices were up at an annual on-farm lamb sale near Kyeburn last week.

A family have no regrets moving more than 1000km south to own a bigger farm in East Otago.

Preparations are "full steam ahead" to host the South Island Sheep Dog Trial Championships near Alexandra next month.

Kyeburn Dog Trial Club held events on farmland on either side of State Highway 85 on March 22 and 23.

Two traditional butchers are setting up shop in Dunedin and calling on southern farmers to help them fill the chiller.

A loosening of rules means some Otago farmers no longer have to get their stock tested for bovine tuberculosis before moving them off-farm.