A gut feeling, backed by science
A gut feeling, backed by science
Sheep breeding has become a science, and with technology and stock management, these three elements have combined in the sheep breeder of today.
Farming
Culture shock almost overcome
Culture shock almost overcome
Just imagine having been brought up in highly urbanised London.
‘Meat the Need’ helps the vulnerable
‘Meat the Need’ helps the vulnerable
Farmers feed people.
Cycling for good of rural health
Cycling for good of rural health
Two North Island farmers’ daughters have been riding the wave to support farmer mental health.
Planners, farmers can help each other
Planners, farmers can help each other
Intergenerational farmers are rural survivors, but they do not have a big voice in environmental management, according to Lynda Murchison.
Top scholarship for flour miller
Top scholarship for flour miller
Alec Muir has become the first flour miller in South Canterbury to win the NZ Flour Millers Association's Tier One Barris Sherris Scholarship.
Hampshire investment pays dividends
Hampshire investment pays dividends
An $8000 investment in a Hampshire ram at the Gore ram fair two years ago has paid off for Little River farmer Ben Butterick.
Group founder praised for connecting rural folk
Group founder praised for connecting rural folk
The founder of Whatever with Wiggy, a word-of-mouth online forum for people in rural communities, has been praised by his peers nationwide for keeping members connected and sane during Covid-19.
Lessons from experience with bovis
Lessons from experience with bovis
Mid Canterbury dairy farmers John and Michelle O’Connell are days away from getting Mycoplasma bovis test results.
Shift from town to country rewarding
Shift from town to country rewarding
Nicky Tily works with up to 4000 pigs — and loves every minute of it.
‘We’ve been given a real wake-up call’
‘We’ve been given a real wake-up call’
Will Halliday says he acts much the same as a farmer on a drafting gate when new proposals and ideas come across his desk.
Pair win 2020 Plate to Pasture Award
Pair win 2020 Plate to Pasture Award
Brent and Kara Lilley, of Coromandel Agriculture Ltd, have been named Silver Fern Farms’ Plate to Pasture Award winners for 2020.
The man who made 500,000 cows
The man who made 500,000 cows
Dirk van den Ven estimates he has inseminated half a million cows in this 40-year career.
Family working to keep tracks open
Family working to keep tracks open
Merinos and mountain bikes.
Moes grown in support of colleague
Moes grown in support of colleague
Soup strainers of varying shapes and sizes have been appearing on the faces of Southland Farm Machinery staff in support of one of their own who is battling cancer.
Sheep farming runs in the blood
Sheep farming runs in the blood
The Robertsons were not meant to continue sheep farming.
Learning to be brave a key lesson
Learning to be brave a key lesson
Being brave. That’s something Kate Menzies has learnt a lot about through her involvement over the past decade with the Agri-Women’s Development Trust.
Pandemic prompts Black Stick's return to Southern farm life
Pandemic prompts Black Stick's return to Southern farm life
Maniototo’s Tessa Jopp who has committed to her hockey career, including seasons with the national Black Sticks team, was forced to reconsider her options earlier this year while living in Belgium.
Finding value in their Jersey herd
Finding value in their Jersey herd
Ross and Kristy Conder are not milking your typical Southland herd.
Injury can’t keep Brooklyn off target
Injury can’t keep Brooklyn off target
She’s a horse ridin’, gun totin’ gal from Mossburn who has had a smokin’ good year in clay target shooting.