Yvonne O'Hara

James Fox, of Invercargill, is keen to hear from any merino farmers who will allow him to practice on fleeces for his upcoming competition in Perth next month.

The importance of ''speaking up'' when feeling depressed or down, is emphasised at each of Elle Perriam's Will to Live Speak Up meetings, two of which were held in Winton and Balclutha last week.

Dairy farmer Sandra Campbell, of Clinton, was expecting maybe 10 or 15 women to attend the Women's Enviro Event in Clinton on July 30.

Dairy farm manager Richard Ray, of Clydevale, was delighted when Array Ssire (Supersire) Estephine-ET VG85, a two-year-old heifer, won this year's national 2019 Broomfield Senior Youth Heifer...

Dipton Primary School staff and pupils are making plans to use their $500 voucher from the Plant Store, for a planting programme for an area of wetlands at Castledowns in the spring.

Limehills School's Underdogs, Danny McDonald, Cooper Mitchell and Ben Cairns had fun representing the region in the AgrikidsNZ competition in Napier recently.

Plenty of snow, combined with a loss of power for Gore and outlying areas made for a challenging Monday morning this week.

Ettrick farm manager David Parker followed in his father Alan’s footsteps when he sold his three-year-old heading dog Glen for a record $10,200 at the sheep and cattle dog sale at Charlton sale...

Organiser Laura Douglas says she has had an amazing response to her first Southern Girl Finishing School.

A farm dog that sold for more than $10,000 in Gore yesterday marked the occasion by lifting his leg on his new owner's gumboot.

Beef + Lamb New Zealand is to host a ''Thinking Outside the Box'' seminar with a positive spin, at the Gore RSA next month.

Graham White's interest in dog trialling will take him to Ireland for the Irish National Sheep Dog Trials in August and then he will be judging his fifth transtasman test in Nelson in November.

A Central Otago winemaker is using augmented reality technology to tell the story of his wine.

Kimberley Simmons (15) is passionate about dairy cows and has had an excellent year so far, dairy-wise.

The Southern Dairy Hub team hosted four road show meetings at Milton, Otautau, Gore and Lumsden last week to update farmers about research and production on the property.

Louise Cook is a self-confessed geek and proud of it.

Girls who wish to learn skills as diverse as jump-starting a tractor, moving stock, shooting, fencing and changing a tyre can do so at two hands-on Southern Girl Finishing School workshops in...

More than $100,000 was raised from this year's Clinton Lions Club's Advance Agriculture Brassica Competition.