Lambs reaching $460 in Coalgate saleyards put pressure on record books

A saleyard topping effort has followed earlier success in the show ring after Dick Frahm sold seven Poll Dorset ram lambs for $460 each at the Coalgate livestock sales. Photo: David Hill

Tim Cronshaw

Sunday, August 16, 2026

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Rural LifeSeptember 17

Many farmers pessimistic despite decade-high profits

Many farmers are looking at next year's books with pessimism, even dairy, despite profits this year reaching their highest level in a decade, a new survey shows.

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Rural EventsSeptember 16

Tourism side-hustle helps pay for biodiversity improvements on East Otago sheep and beef farm

Income from an on-farm glamping business is being used to restore biodiversity on an East Otago farming operation.

Shawn McAvinue

Tourism side-hustle helps pay for biodiversity improvements on East Otago sheep and beef farm

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Rural EventsSeptember 16

Celebrating a conservation project to protect and restore biodiversity for future generations

Farmers are uniting as part of a biodiversity conservation project in East Otago.

Shawn McAvinue

Celebrating a conservation project to protect and restore biodiversity for future generations

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Rural EventsSeptember 16

Bringing biodiversity back is everyone’s responsibility, ecologist says

Communities need to drive bringing biodiversity back, an ecologist and botanist says.

Shawn McAvinue

Bringing biodiversity back is everyone’s responsibility, ecologist says