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- New apple brand to be grown in Mid Canterbury
New Zealand fruit and vegetable giant T&G has set in motion the first commercial planting of Joli apples in Canterbury backed by superannuation funds.
- Dynamic roles behind award success
Ashburton couple Richard Grabham and Nikita Baker know every nook and corner of their contract milking business.
- Former B+L boss on the move to arable sector
Former Beef + Lamb New Zealand chief executive Dr Scott Champion will take over the leadership of the Foundation for Arable Research (FAR).
- ‘Pat on the back’ for repurposed posts
Marlborough’s Repost is shaving costly time turning old treated vineyard posts into good-as-new farming posts with their own machinery.
- Goats’ appetite for
Cashmere goats have sorted a prickly problem for a Canterbury couple, writes Tim Cronshaw.
- Dairy farmer’s invention not just child’s play
A West Coast farmer can thank his children for a lightbulb moment to take the back-breaking work out of shifting stockwater hoses.
- NZ-made rust protector on the mark Prolan: Advertising feature
There is a multitude of rust protection products available nowadays.
- Drought effects being felt more than usual across regions
The irrigation season would usually be nearing end at this time of year, but ‘‘many regions are feeling the impacts of drought more than usual’’.
- Winter brings increased risk to private drinking water supplies
With winter setting in and wetter conditions on the way, Environment Canterbury is encouraging rural landowners to check and test their private bores to make sure their drinking water stays safe.
- Have you checked your bore lately?
Winter is coming, and that means wetter soils, deeper drainage, and a higher chance of surface water flooding — all of which can carry risk to your drinking water supply.
Featured documents
- Unlikely pair guiding Groundswell
They’re an unlikely pair of protesters....
- ‘About 10’ (and counting) — working dogs feature large in life
Steve Kerr grew up on the Mackenzie Country’s sprawling Grampians Station when it wasn’t unusual for more than 40 farm dogs to be working in the back country at one time....
- It’s a tough road to breed the perfect dog
The dogs peer out of a neatly-lined row of kennels when they hear footsteps on the gravel....
- Creative force at New Zealand Merino taking on a new ‘Leaft’
A creative force who has been with The New Zealand Merino Company almost since its inception is moving on, writes TimCronshaw....
- Crystal clear vision for farm’s future
NICK France gazes out to a pond fringed entirely by flax to the left and then down to a flood plain cloaked by many new plantings....
- Perendale pioneer awarded life membership
Perendale breeders from throughout New Zealand converged on Queenstown last week for their annual conference. Rural editor Sally Rae headed to West Otago and caught up with them during a tour of two stud properties....
- Leaving a farm as good as it ever was
A Mid Canterbury couple is at ease with their family’s farming legacy being just two years shy of farming in the same district for 150 years, Tim Cronshaw writes....
- Perendale pioneer awarded life membership
Perendale breeders from throughout New Zealand converged on Queenstown last week for their annual conference. Rural editor Sally Rae headed to West Otago and caught up with them during a tour of two stud properties....
- Family devoted to industry
North Otago father-and-daughter JohnSchultz and KylieStenton were acknowledged recently at the New Zealand Groundspread Fertilisers’ Association’s awards function. Business and rural editor SallyRae finds out more about their genuinely family business....
- West Otago couple count their blessings
The five finalists have been decided for the Otago Daily Times and Rural Life Year of the Farmer initiative. This week, rural editor Sally Rae talks to the first of the finalists — Heriot-based Rural Champions Stefan and Holly Roulston about dairy farming in West Otago....