Professionals on the farm to help cleanup
Rural service professionals put down their phones and laptops and left the keys in the car last week when they turned out in force to help Strath Taieri farmers clean up from recent flood damage.
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Students pitch in on flood cleanup
Students pitch in on flood cleanup
A group of students used their study break to help clean farms impacted by flooding in South Otago.
Farmers may be in for levy increase
Farmers may be in for levy increase
Beef + Lamb might ask farmers for a levy increase, chairwoman Kate Acland warned.
Applications open for scholarships
Applications open for scholarships
Horticulture New Zealand is calling for applications for its 2025 scholarship programme.
Trio to vie for two spots on Alliance board
Trio to vie for two spots on Alliance board
Three candidate nominations - who include Southland’s Cameron Black - have been received for the two vacancies in Alliance Group’s upcoming director election.
Large fine for ill-treating ewe
Large fine for ill-treating ewe
A sheep had to be put down after a Morven farmer allowed it to become entangled in scrap fencing wire.
Best practice days help fence off the cowboys
Best practice days help fence off the cowboys
The best way to install a fence is continually evolving and fencing contractors can separate themselves from the cowboys by attending bestpractice days, a southern industry spokesman says.
Scholarship boosts skills in wool classing
Scholarship boosts skills in wool classing
Canterbury’s Samantha Harmer and Tegan Caves are keen to put wool-classing skills learned from mentors to the test in the woolshed.
Hurunui farmers cling on for rain
Hurunui farmers cling on for rain
Hurunui farmers are juggling hungry lambs with tight feed stores as rain fails to replenish the drought-declared region.
Lake Opuha’s water level recovering
Lake Opuha’s water level recovering
Old trees coming up to the surface last summer are fully submerged again as water levels go back to normal at South Canterbury’s Lake Opuha.
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Fear plan gap will allow for farm intensification
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Fear plan gap will allow for farm intensification
Forest & Bird is worried that without a new land and water plan in place soon a gap in Otago’s planning framework could allow for an intensification of farming.
Sunny outlook for farm after installing solar-powered irrigation system
Sunny outlook for farm after installing solar-powered irrigation system
Tarras farmer Sam Spiers admits he did not know much about solar when he first pondered an alternative power source to pump water uphill to his irrigation pivots.
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Anger over rural bus route cuts
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Anger over rural school bus route cuts
Rural children in the South have been left stranded by cuts to school bus routes slammed as "ridiculous" by one principal.
Tarras farm wields power of sun
Tarras farm wields power of sun
Tarras farmer Sam Spiers admits he did not know much about solar when he first pondered an alternative power source to pump water uphill to his irrigation pivots.
Mayor worried for Pukeuri workers
Mayor worried for Pukeuri workers
Waitaki’s Mayor says he is worried at the impact on Waitaki employees in the meat processing sector following the Alliance Group’s planned retrenchment from its Smithfield site in Timaru.
Angry farmers call to block river access
Angry farmers call to block river access
Southland Federated Farmers wants its members to rip down access signs and block anglers from their land as a dispute escalates over a controversial court decision.
Electric tractor part of uni’s decarbonising journey
Electric tractor part of uni’s decarbonising journey
Only the silent hum of a new electric tractor will be heard soon at an energy farm being developed by Lincoln University to prise itself free of fossil fuels.
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Brazen poachers spreading fear in Middlemarch
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Brazen poachers spreading fear in Middlemarch
Scared Middlemarch farmers are being reminded not to take the law into their own hands after a spate of poaching in the rural Otago township.
Student army pitching in to help Catlins farm
Student army pitching in to help damaged farm in Catlins
The Student Volunteer Army is on the march again and will pitch in to help a flood-damaged farm in the Catlins at the weekend.
Call for Southland farmers to ban anglers
Call for Southland farmers to ban anglers
Southland Federated Farmers wants its members to rip down access signs and block anglers from their land as a dispute escalates over a controversial court decision.