Toni Williams

Hundreds of people young and old took up the chance to walk in a dry section of the Rangitata Diversion Race and get up close to the new $17.2m fish screen system before it goes underwater.

The Methven Collie Club ran its 125th anniversary trials last week.

Farming Families is helping connect Mid Canterbury's rural community one meal at a time.

Canterbury’s soggy harvest is shaping up to be a game of two halves for arable farmers.

Organisers of Mid Canterbury’s A&P shows have one eye on the ball planning their events, and the other on New Zealand’s reported Omicron cases.

Repurposing old pallets into novelty outdoor Christmas decorations has been a sideline hobby of late for Mid Canterbury Rural Support Trust welfare co-ordinator Frances Beeston.

A shortage of experienced agricultural machinery operators for the summer season is putting pressure on farmers and rural contractors.

The Mid Canterbury Vintage Machinery Club has postponed its Wheat and Wheels rally in early April.

Clare Buchanan is leading a case study trial at Mid Canterbury’s Align Farms as it moves towards a regenerative farm system.

Anxiety, stress and uncertainty.

Long-standing volunteer firefighter Debs Stilgoe-Brooker has taken the helm at the Willowby Fire Station.

After 40 years, shearing has not lost its appeal for Rakaia shearing contractor Grant Smith.

Agricultural and pastoral shows have been an institution reaching across many generations, Ashburton A&P Association stalwarts Tim and Beth Lovett say.

The sun was shining and the birds singing as scores of Women’s Institute members, in decorated sunhats, gathered for a ‘‘meet in the middle’’ picnic lunch in Ashburton Domain to commemorate 100...

It is great to have a residency pathway for people working on our farms, but it’s ‘‘way too late, way too slow’’, Federated Farmers Mid Canterbury provincial president David Clark says.

Flood recovery works are ongoing in Mid Canterbury as farmers and landowners deal with the impact of district-wide flooding four months ago.

Grain farmer Anthony Hampton has timed the final sowing of wheat on his Lauriston farm to perfection.