Tim Cronshaw

A combat veteran sent to four tours of front-line battle in Afghanistan has told dairy farmers to shrug off their tough guy image and take up meditation.

Canterbury farmers who were part of a Hinds and Selwyn project to come up with ways to reduce nitrogen leaching on their farms expect it will be more difficult to make progress in future.

There’s not enough minutes in the day for a Canterbury dairy farmer who’s packing in homework for the Young Farmer of the Year final, on top of his job, writes Tim Cronshaw.

Sheep and beef farmers bearing the brunt of low returns are still feeling the ill-effects of more modest farm inflation.

Steady farm-gate prices have yet to sway pig farmers to expand their piggeries as they wait on the potentially costly results of a new welfare draft code.

Triplet-carrying ewes are being exited by farmers as feed runs low in parts of dry North Canterbury.

A Banks Peninsula bull selling for $43,000 is a standout so far for Canterbury bull sales with buyers often shying away from big spending.

Good genetics are making all the difference at sales, writes Tim Cronshaw.

A near full house has 300 dairy farmers signed up for the three-day South Island Dairy Event (Side) at Lincoln University next week.

Fonterra’s starting mark of an $8 midpoint for next season’s milk price forecast dips below bank predictions.

McDonald’s diners are prepared to pay only lip service to beef sustainability with the price of a burger front-of-mind when they make their order.

Seasoned shearers will work their way through 3000 sheep over eight hours at a Hinds woolshed next year in memory of old mates lost to cancer.

South Canterbury irrigation co-operative Opuha Water is pointing to the discovery of indications of freshwater crayfish life in the Kakahu River as a positive sign.

A beef roundtable is committed to maintaining a sustainability course despite looming trading challenges.

A 76-year-old blacksmith is keeping the forge alive for the rural community.

Canterbury farmers are among the frontrunners for the Rural Hero of the Year category in the Primary Industries New Zealand (PINZ) Awards.

Arable farmers with fuller silos of the six main cereal crops from a better harvest than last season seem to be taking a cautious approach to autumn and winter sowing.

McDonald’s diners are prepared to pay only lip service to beef sustainability with the price of a burger front of mind when they make their order.

Disgruntled sheep farmers have come out of a Cheviot meeting with a little more hope the wool industry can dig its way out of a big hole.

Wool researchers are getting closer to commercialising new pigments after making a technical breakthrough.