Tim Cronshaw

The nation’s largest rural-supply store, Farmlands, has turned around a disappointing financial result a year ago with a profit credited to business improvements.

Christchurch Airport is preparing for record-breaking international passenger arrivals landing this summer.

Christchurch Airport is preparing for a record-breaking number of international passenger arrivals this summer.

Christchurch deep-tech company Fabrum is a step closer to helping make Australasia’s first hydrogen flight with joint venture partners after filling aviation tanks with liquid hydrogen at the airport.

The nation’s largest rural-supply store Farmlands has turned around a disappointing financial result a year ago with a profit credited to business improvements.

A trio of pasture-first dairy farmers are among high-achieving Canterbury operators aiming to harvest every possible blade of homegrown feed.

Lincoln University Dairy Farm has moved from 10 milkings every seven days to a more flexible system and has dropped pure plantain growing to keep up with top-performing farms in Canterbury.

A soggy spring put the dampener on early milk production targets after a wet winter at Lincoln University’s Dairy Farm.

French owners of jam, juice and sauce company Barker’s will start processing at a new factory near Geraldine by the end of the year as part of a $50 million to $60m expansion project.

South Canterbury will be the undisputed home base for butter making in the South Island after Fonterra signed off a $75 million expansion project at its Clandeboye site.

Canterbury's family-owned Carrfields Group is developing a multimillion-dollar research and development farm for seed and plant innovation.

Canterbury farmers are calling for the processing of resource consents costing up to $100,000 to be renewed to go on hold until the government’s overhaul of the Resource Management Act (RMA).

North Canterbury farmers are continuing to count up the losses from severe winds leaving a trail of destruction on Culverden farms.

A young couple are making faster progress in dairying after the introduction of a new equity partnership by state-owned farmer Pāmu, writes Tim Cronshaw.

The Canterbury A&P Show has bounced back from near cancellation last year to have full livestock pens and trade exhibitor sites.

Canterbury's family-owned Carrfields Group is developing a multimillion-dollar research and development farm for seed and plant innovation.

South Canterbury farmers leaned on extra supplementary feeding to get them through a slow spring nipping into milk production.

Leeston beekeeper Barry Hantz is scrambling to bounce back from a poor honey-making season and, more lately, is having to deal with weak queen mating.

The phones are running hot as farmers dial in insurance claims climbing to over $10 million already for weather damage, in which southern farms were hit hard.