Thriving Southland wants to hear about possible project ideas from the region’s farmers and catchment groups, as it has Government money available to put towards developing them.
Some of the lessons learned from the Covid-19 lockdown will continue to be implemented to encourage fewer sick days for staff this winter, Alexandra shearing contractor Dion Morrell says.
Although there are still some cull cattle waiting to go to the works, the on-farm pressure is easing as the backlog is gradually being cleared by processors.
Southern Rural Life reporter Yvonne O'Hara chats with Sharon Cousins, of Balclutha, who is one of four temporary feed co-ordinators appointed by the Ministry for Primary Industries in an...
Pasture covers on Southland and South Otago farms improved during May, although there had been lower rainfall and higher temperatures compared to normal, DairyNZ’s Southland and South Otago...
DairyNZ has started rolling out its Go Dairy and Farm Ready training courses in Invercargill and at the SIT Telford campus, near Balclutha, as well as in the Waikato.
The Otago Southland province winter grazing intervention group has only been in place for about three weeks and has already had two cases referred to it.
A group of southern farmers is working towards improving production — without the need for more land or higher inputs — by achieving 150% hogget lambing.
High clearance rates as part of the region’s bull sales to date are ‘‘pleasing’’, PGG Wrightson livestock genetics representative Callum McDonald says.
Outgoing Southland Ballance Farm Environment Awards regional co-ordinator Tracie Donelley has always been impressed by how dedicated and passionate the entrants are about their farms.
DairyNZ has farmers’ backs, and that is why it is important levy payers vote on the milk solids levy, says DairyNZ’s South Island farm performance head Tony Finch.