Tim Cronshaw

Christchurch agritech company Onside has unravelled a complex problem to come up with a map-based tool highlighting risk areas and increasing worker safety at many agriculture workplaces.

Fonterra expects to wrap up an emission-slashing conversion of two coal-fired boilers to wood pellets at its South Canterbury milk processing site at Clandeboye by September.

A Christchurch innovator’s new electric pumping system for milk tankers is making big fuel savings and cutting vehicle emissions.

Australian holidaymakers are about to swell numbers on the slopes to about 10,000 visitors daily across NZSki’s alpine trio of southern ski areas next week.

Canterbury business owners are no longer oozing with confidence as shoppers and other consumers resist the buying urge.

A Canadian company with an international reach in sustainable engineering and environmental consulting has bought Christchurch-headquartered engineering firm Cosgroves.

The late Mid Canterbury farmer Chris Allen was posthumously named Rural Hero in a touching moment at the Primary Industries New Zealand Awards.

Southern breeders will speak of this season highly after a run of top sales led by Clarence Valley’s Matariki Herefords clinched a national record auction price of $80,000 for a Hereford 2-year-old...

A Christchurch biotech company extracting an innovative protein from sheepskins to make mainly health benefit and nutrition ingredients for export markets is about to launch a capital raise.

Winchmore farmer Mark Copland expects the New Zealand and Australian rivalry will be as strong as ever when the first whistle is blown in the transtasman sheep dog trials at Ashburton.

Long nights of training under car headlights have paid off for Geraldine High School’s Tom Batty and Cullen Bolt after they beat the big names at the Fieldays Silver Staples pairs fencing competition.

Dairy farmers are being advised to be picky about investing in innovations, only improving their bottom line as they future-proof farms in an uncertain world.

An Ashburton farmer is advising dairy farmers to get their milking sheds checked for electrical faults after leakjing power was found to be making his cows "twitchy".

Arable industry leader Alison Stewart had a classic case of imposter syndrome when she received a damehood.

Interested parties are having their say on the sale of a farmer-owned flour mill in South Canterbury’s Washdyke which must get Commerce Commission clearance to go ahead.

A chainsaw drone developed by a University of Canterbury team to cut wrist-size branches in hazardous areas may be commercialised soon.

Arable industry leader Alison Stewart had a classic case of imposter syndrome when she received a damehood.