Toni Williams

Ashburton's Midland Apiaries has created complex packaging with soft-touch laminate and labelling infused with invisible ink to combat international counterfeiting of their liquid gold product -...

Thousands of kilometres were clocked up when Ryal Bush Transport Ashburton hosted its annual Smiles4miles community event, offering vehicle rides to people with special needs or facing day-to-day...

Mid Canterbury's first deer industry technology expo in Ashburton recently enabled farmers to get one-on-one advice about smart farming solutions from industry representatives in a relaxed, open...

Mid Canterbury's new poultry farm, owned by Kiwi Free Range Ltd, has successfully raised its first run of chickens. It had 50,000 chickens shipped from shed one to poultry giant, Tegel New Zealand,...

AgriKids NZ Grand Final winners from Ashburton Intermediate School - the AIS Fencers - convincingly won a fun, agri-challenge mini event against some of the school's staff last week.

Mid Canterbury farmers may be in the thick of it, dealing with Mycoplasma bovis, but they need to keep up their record-keeping and farm biosecurity and talk to one another, says a Ministry for...

Mid Canterbury A&P show organisers are treading cautiously around showing cattle in the wake of Mycoplasma bovis and the nationwide attempt to eradicate the bovine disease.

The difference between a normal and abnormal calving, animal care during calving and looking after newborn calves were topics at a DairyNZ CalvingSmart workshop in Hinds recently.

Faecal micro-organisms, nitrogen, phosphorus, sediment and contaminants all affect water quality.