John Falconer's hydraulic, remote-controlled deer crush, which he designed, was one of the reasons he and wife Mary won the Gallagher Technology and Innovation Award at the 2019 Deer Industry...
Federated Farmers Otago president Simon Davies would like to see a support and advocacy group, similar to that established in Ashburton last month, rolled out for Otago and Southland and other...
It was third time lucky for an orchard compliance manager from Kurow who was named the Central Otago Young Fruitgrower of the Year on Friday last week.
Sheep and beef farmers Sara and Tim O'Neill, of Five Mile Farm, Gimmerburn, have spent the past year developing a succession plan to buy the property from his parents.
Rural Women New Zealand (RWNZ) delegates to the recent Associated Country Women of the World (ACWW) conference in Melbourne, sold socks, and the scarves from their necks, to raise money for the...
There has been strong growth by the honey industry during the past few years but with demand and prices dropping by as much as 50% compared to the previous season, there will be belt tightening and...
Two Southland raw milk producers believe current sale and transport regulations are limiting their ability to expand their business and they have told the Government that.
Kaitangata dairy farmer Stephen Korteweg thought the Federated Farmers Otago annual meeting in Alexandra on Friday night would be business as usual, but he was in for a surprise.
Toko Mouth farmer Simon Davies was voted in unopposed for his second term as the Otago Federated Farmers' president during the Federated Farmers' Otago provincial annual meeting in Alexandra on...
The orchard of the future will be highly digitised and more productive, with fruit being grown in a protected environment and tended by robots, says Plant and Food Research (PFR) scientist Dr Jill...
There is a perception that careers in the primary sector are just about farming, wearing gumboots and hard physical work in the rain, Primary Industry Capability Alliance (PICA) chief executive...