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  • 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....

  • Musical interlude for dryland arable operation

    Music is a family affair for the Talbots who run a dryland arable and finishing operation at Waitohi, just outside of Temuka....

  • Park where country comes to town

    In the quarter of a century that a former Banks Peninsula farmer has kept the Canterbury A&P showgrounds spick and span, there’s one achievement he’s most proud of, writes TimCronshaw....

  • Ploughman heading to Ireland champs without his trusty blue Ford

    It’s virtually a given that the invasion of Ukraine has spelled the end of Bob Mehrtens’ chances of ever ploughing Russia’s rich soils....

  • Breathing new life into choked-up wetlands

    Within the central South Island there are 14 demonstration wetlands showing the work farmers are doing to improve them. Another three farmers tell Tim Cronshaw why they have invested so much time and money....

  • Irrigation-innovation combination a winner

    A young couple are in the early days of ambitious plans for an irrigated North Canterbury farm, writes Tim Cronshaw....

  • Musical interlude for dryland arable operation

    Music is a family affair for the Talbots who run a dryland arable and finishing operation at Waitohi, just outside of Temuka....

  • ‘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....

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