Tim Cronshaw

A farming couple just outside of Ashburton are understood to have set a record prime cattle price after breaking the $4 a kilogram liveweight barrier with a Limousin steer.

Southern dairy farmers are marvelling at the trajectory of a milk price entering record territory at $10 a kilogram of milksolids.

Growers are losing vast sums of wheat, barley and other crops being left in paddocks each year from combine harvesters failing to be correctly tuned.

A Canterbury farmer hasn’t been shy about taking up opportunities across the many walks of farming life, writes Tim Cronshaw.

There has been no slowing down since the Everest family won the nation’s top silverware for the Ballance Farm Environment Awards in 2022.

Farmers are looking forward to the Christchurch A&P Show returning to business as usual next year at the Canterbury A&P Showgrounds.

The Foundation for Arable Research’s (FAR) main event of the year will feed growers the latest developments on managing crops at its Mid Canterbury site.

Canterbury sheep and beef farmers who lapped up the wisdom of mentors when they were young are paying it back by being part of Growing Future Farmers (GFF).

Farmers can expect easy walking around an improved site for the South Island Agricultural Field Days at Canterbury’s Kirwee in March.

The cows are bringing home the milk for Canterbury farmers ahead of South Island collections rising overall by about 5% over early spring.

A visit to Fonterra’s innovation lab in Singapore has given a Mid Canterbury couple a deeper appreciation of how many products their milk goes into.

North Canterbury farmer Alistair Bird — also known as Kiwi Farmer — is the winner of the people’s choice competition in this year’s Otago Daily Times-Rural Life Rural Champions initiative.

Farmers are being cautioned to watch out for rising energy costs and a potential ‘‘price shock’’ if Middle East strikes escalate that could reverse cheaper fertilisers.

Lincoln University’s record student numbers are on a strong growth curve with half of them studying for postgraduate qualifications.

Scientists are quietly confident the success of adding fungal endophytes to protect ryegrass pastures can be repeated in wheat and other cereal crops.

High country farmers are glad to see the back of a late snow storm landing in the middle of merino lambing and hoggets about to give birth in Canterbury.

A slimmed down Canterbury A&P Show will be larger than first thought next week as supporters led by Sir David Carter bring it back from a precarious financial position.

A new genetic data co-ordinator based on a farm outside of Kaikoura is helping the nation’s beef farmers lift the genetic quality in their herds.

Old trees coming up to the surface last summer are fully submerged again as water levels go back to normal at South Canterbury’s Lake Opuha.