Skip to main content
  • Subscribe
  • ...
Home
Brought to you by:

flexolt_600x200.png

partly cloudyDunedin 15 | 7
Wednesday, Wed, 29 OctoberOct 2025
Subscribe
Send us news & photos

Search form

  • Dairy
  • Red Meat
  • Horticulture
  • People
  • Other News
  • Digital Editions
  • Rural Events
  • Rural Champions
  • ODT

Search form

  • Subscribe
  • Send Us Your News
  • ...
  • Contact Us
  • Email
  • Facebook

Plus

  • Jobs
  • Wedding Guide
  • Death Notices
  • Privacy Policy
  • Drive South
  • Weather
  • Media Council Complaints

    Wind-damaged pivot irrigators in North Canterbury. Photo: Supplied

    'Huge concern': Irrigators wiped out by wild winds

    Tens of millions of dollars worth of irrigation equipment is thought to have been damaged by strong winds in North Canterbury.

    Growing pasture, efficiency and profit

    PHOTOS: SHAWN MCAVINUE

    Growing pasture, efficiency and profit

    Southland dairy farmers Steven and Hayley Clarke, with their son Jordie, hosted a field day showcasing their passion for maximising pasture growth and utilising it in their system. Shawn McAvinue...

    Growing feed on farm best practice — Fonterra

    Fonterra on-farm performance programme manager Louise Cook inspects pasture on Steven and Hayley...

    Growing feed on farm best practice — Fonterra

    Home-grown feed is the superhero of the dairy industry, Fonterra on-farm performance programme manager Louise Cook says.

    Banding together after storm

    Taieri farmer Josh Adams fills up his generator to power his milking shed. PHOTO: STEPHEN JAQUIERY

    Banding together after storm

    Farmers in the South are working together to minimise the damage caused by last week’s destructive storm.

    Dairy farmer grateful for community help

    FarmRight investment manager Blair Hamill fills up a generator with diesel in Te Waewae Bay, near...

    Dairy farmer grateful for community help

    After losing over $16,000 worth of milk, and working 40 hours straight, one Western Southland dairy farmer is in awe of the support from her rural community.

    Alliance votes to sell 65% stake

    Alliance Group owns six processing plants throughout New Zealand, including Lorneville, Mataura...

    Alliance votes to sell 65% stake

    It's a Dawn deal.

    Scheme group to be re-established

    Work at Kaitangata is among recent floodbank repairs the Otago Regional Council is carrying out...

    Scheme group to be re-established

    South Otago river catchment stakeholders have an opportunity to influence future flood measures, as part of a new liaison group.

    Access to farms wanted to shoot wild deer

    Southern Wild Game Co project lead Jim Goodall (left) and general manager Mark Frisby outside the...

    Access to farms wanted to shoot wild deer

    A team at a new wild deer processing plant in Dunedin are calling for hunting access to southern farms with an overabundance of the animals.

    Dogs and humans ready for Bark Up

    Balfour Young Farmers Club member Anna Schollum and her dog take on the "Bark Up" challenge....

    Dogs and humans ready for Bark Up

    Get your dogs, your mates, warm up the vocal chords, because the Balfour "Bark Up" is right around the corner.

    Carrfields developing R&D site for plant innovation

    Carrfields developing R&D site for plant innovation

    Canterbury's family-owned Carrfields Group is developing a multimillion-dollar research and development farm for seed and plant innovation.

    Adapting to Aussie rules a challenge

    East Otago triallist Lloyd Smith and his heading dog Code will compete to retain the Wayleggo Cup...

    Adapting to Aussie rules a challenge

    Palmerston triallist Lloyd Smith and his heading dog Code are in a team out to beat their Australian rivals and bring home the Wayleggo Cup.

    Medical services trust planned

    Daniel (Cage Fighter) Devine, a musterer on Bendigo Station in Central Otago, hoists Shrek, the...

    Medical services trust planned

    After a $55 million windfall, a Central Otago high country farmer who sold part of his station to a mining giant is vowing to give back to the community.

    And the winners are . . .

    Mark and Elsbeth Thomson. PHOTOS: SUPPLIED

    And the winners are . . .

    "Absolutely thrilled to bits" was the reaction from Southland farmer Mark Thomson after learning he and his wife, Elspeth, were the winners of this year’s Otago Daily Times-Rural Life Rural...

    Love of Holsteins runs in the family

    Holstein Friesian New Zealand Otago branch life member Denis Aitken at Airdrie Holsteins stud in...

    Love of Holsteins runs in the family

    For the first time, Denis Aitken wrote the word "retired" on a traveller declaration form rather than "dairy farmer" when returning home on a flight recently.

    A&P Show set to make strong return

    Canterbury A&P Association chairman Sir David Carter says town and country visitors can...

    A&P Show set to make strong return

    The Canterbury A&P Show has bounced back from near cancellation last year to have full livestock pens and trade exhibitor sites.

    Pāmu opportunity too good to miss

    Canterbury sharemilkers Simon (left) and Alex (right) Ferguson with their team at Pāmu's...

    Pāmu opportunity too good to miss

    A young couple are making faster progress in dairying after the introduction of a new equity partnership by stet-owned farmer Pāmu, writes Tim Cronshaw.

    Massive winds take toll on farms

    A Culverden farmer lost 27 of 35 spans on a centre pivot irrigator from severe winds in the lead...

    Massive winds take toll on farms

    North Canterbury farmers are continuing to count up the losses from severe winds leaving a trail of destruction on Culverden farms.

    Call for consent hold until RMA done

    Nearly 200 Canterbury farmers unhappy about being put in RMA limbo over resource consents due to...

    Call for consent hold until RMA done

    Canterbury farmers are calling for the processing of resource consents costing up to $100,000 to be renewed to go on hold until the government’s overhaul of the Resource Management Act (RMA).

    Carrfields developing R&D site

    Carrfields Ltd group managing director Craig Carr. PHOTO: ALLIED MEDIA FILES

    Carrfields developing R&D site

    Canterbury's family-owned Carrfields Group is developing a multimillion-dollar research and development farm for seed and plant innovation.

    $75m new butter hub at Clandeboye

    Fonterra will spend $75 million on a new butter line at South Canterbury’s Clandeboye milk...

    $75m new butter hub at Clandeboye

    South Canterbury will be the undisputed home base for butter making in the South Island after Fonterra signed off a $75 million expansion project at its Clandeboye site.
    Read more

    Connect with us

    • Facebook
    • Twitter
    • Email

    Editors' Picks

    • Briar Dawson and her 3-year-old daughter Elsie. Photo: Supplied/Givealittle

      Young Otago mum focused on making memories after cancer diagnosis

    • Ardgowan School pupil Emma Shimauchi Moore was presented with a Neighbourhood Support award this...

      SUBSCRIBER

      Pupil’s actions give family ‘invaluable’ time with grandmother

    • '45 years of hard work destroyed': Readers share their storm stories

    • Rowena and Rod Bowler are ready to call last drinks after nine years running the Luggate Hotel....

      SUBSCRIBER

      Historic hotel for sale amidst property boom

    • This Wānaka property (above) in Bremner Bay, belonging to Marjorie Cook’s family, is expected to...

      SUBSCRIBER

      Family crib ‘Wānaka of old’; set to top $7m

    • Shock diagnosis confirmed ‘by chance’

    Latest News

    • Step into the Spirit of Scotland at the Hororātā Highland Games
    • Landmark puberty block ban reinstated by Queensland government
    • Hurricane damage could be 'unlike anything seen before'
    • Canterbury irrigation equipment wiped out by wild winds
    • 'Huge concern': Irrigators wiped out by wild winds
    • Potential for measles outbreak to be worse than 2019
    Home
    • Contact Us
    • Contribute
    • Facebook

    Subscribe

    • Subscriber Benefits
    • ODT Subscriptions
    • Terms & Conditions
    • Stops, Starts & Redirects
    • FAQs

    About us

    • Contact us
    • Site feedback
    • Send us your news
    • About us
    • Privacy Policy
    • Media Council Complaints
    • AI use
    • Removals policy

    Our Websites

    • Allied Media
    • Allied Productions

    Newspapers

    • ODT E-edition
    • The Star - Christchurch
    • Oamaru Mail
    • The Star - Dunedin
    • The News - Central Otago
    • The Ensign - Gore
    • Ashburton Courier
    • North Canterbury News
    • Southland Express - Invercargill
    • Southern Rural Life
    • Central Rural Life
    • The Courier - Timaru
    • Mountain Scene - Queenstown
    • Property Times South Canterbury
    • Extra! School Publication
    • Clutha Leader
    • Bay Harbour News
    • Selwyn Times
    • The Wanaka Sun

    Classifieds

    • Death notices
    • Drivesouth
    • Jobs
    • Classified Advertising

    Advertise

    • Upload print advertising
    • Advertising Terms
    • Advertise with us

    Services

    • Allied Productions
    • ODT Store
    • Otago Images
    • Corporate Logos

    Magazines

    • Classic Driver
    • Dunedin Guide
    • Drivesouth Best Motor Buys
    • Explore Dunedin
    • Home & Leisure
    • Kiwi Gardener
    • Kiwi Gardener Quarterly
    • Rugby News
    • South
    • 03 Magazine
    • With this Ring
    © Copyright Allied Press Limited 2025. All rights reserved.