About 500 trail runners will be greeted at the finishing line of the Skedaddle race this weekend by Island Hills Station landowners Dan and Mandy Shand.
As sea changes go, this is a big one with a North Canterbury couple to transition from high country farmers to blue ocean sailors, Tim Cronshaw writes.
Virtual fence company Halter has cut its prices by just over a third at the same time as outperforming the national average for six-week in-calf rates.
High farm costs have failed to halt Mid Canterbury farmer Daniel Blair from making savings and lifting his bottom line after investing in fence-less technology.
Rain at the weekend may have offered some farmers temporary relief from the dry, but more is needed, Mid Canterbury Rural Support Trust wellness manager Frances Beeston says.
When drafting the regional policy statement (RPS), the Otago Regional Council forgot that when farmers are hit with impractical policies and rules, it sucks the vitality out of rural communities...
A drone can scatter seed and spray weeds to allow native plants to establish in a gully on a South Otago dairy farm, technology converts Sandra and Chris Campbell say.