Rising fuel costs and power outages energised a group of Southland deer farmers to hold a field day exploring alternative energy solutions.

"It makes bloody good financial sense," a southern banker says about farmers installing solar.

Shareholding farmer-suppliers of Fonterra got paid a share from the $4.2 billion sale of the co-operative’s well-known brands including Anchor butter and Mainland cheese.

He might be a national champion, but it was just another day on the handpiece yesterday for young Oamaru shearing sensation Tye Meikle.

For nearly a century, the Kane family have farmed their 668ha property at Tapanui.

Waimate vet Ryan Luckman is not one to shy away from a challenge.

Canterbury herd manager Ignacio Perez’s video of his Chilean father running a cow collar app 9000km away is going gangbusters on social media.

Tania Murray Haigh still vividly recalls visits to Eden Hore’s property at Naseby when she was about 8.

It was a celebration fit for a queen — and rightly so.