Southern Rural Life

Jamie and Sally Benington have been farming Craigellachie Downs, near Beaumont, for the past 17 years.

Primary ITO has rolled out a trifecta of micro-credentials aimed at ensuring a supply of shearers and wool handlers for the next generation.

The Hogget Haggis team, representing Blue Mountain College, Tapanui, are the top AgriKids in the country.

More than $100,000 was raised from this year's Clinton Lions Club's Advance Agriculture Brassica Competition.

Beef farmers have signed off an increase in the biosecurity levy to as much as $2 per head of cattle to cover their share of the Mycoplasma bovis response.

''You can have any colour jersey as long as its blue.''

Now is the time to place wellness front and centre in our agri-food story if we really want to secure our share of the value we grow.

Dairy workers Krishan Dick-Karetai, (21) of Mokotua, Detroit Ririnui, (20) of Dacre, and Hoani Dick (23), of Kapuka, are all in their first couple of seasons in the dairy industry, and all want to...

With names like Gilbert Enoka, Liam Malone and Ben Allomes, this year's southern dairy conference was a huge success, says Simon Topham.