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• Kia Seltos

  New car buyers love a bargain, and that is continuing to make two of our most aff ordable compact urban SUV's a regular fixture among our top selling new passenger vehicles.

• Ten top tips for grazing winter crops

  Winter is here. It's time to consider protecting your paddocks over the coming months.

• Five generations of Ikamatua farming

  Graeme and Gillian Prendergast are household names in Ikamatua with their mixed sheep and cattle farm on the flats and terraces above the Grey Valley township.

• Top blokes at Totara

  Two blokes at Pamu Farms of New Zealand's Totara Dairy Unit near Westport are jokers at heart but deadly serious when it comes to farm management.

• Setting women up for agriculture

  "We have 12 months to prepare them as best we can for the rest of their lives." Laura Koot is referring to the Fairlight Foundation, the female-only training institute in Northern Southland of which she is executive director.

• Voltage leaks

  Canterbury dairy farmers have found their "twitchy" cows are getting shocks from electrical faults in dairy sheds by voltage leaks up to 60 times above recommended levels.

• Chainsaw drone development impresses

  A chainsaw drone developed by a University of Canterbury team to cut wrist-size branches in hazardous areas may be commercialised soon.

• Farm innovation care advised

  Dairy farmers are being advised to be picky about investing in innovations, only improving their bottom line as they future-proof farms in an uncertain world.

• Armyworm survives Coast winter

  FARInsect experts are gobsmacked the maize and sweetcorn pest fall armyworm has managed to survive over winter on the West Coast.

• 'Buller Man'S Inspiring Journey To Success'

  Pamu West Coast farms (Pamu) business manager Jack Raharuhi's journey is inspiring.

Featured documents

• West Coast dairy winners toasted

  First-time entrants from Reefton who embrace a sustainable version of farming were announced as major winners in the 2021 West Coast/Top of the South Dairy Industry Awards....

• Stud farming of Mahitahi

  Down State highway 6, south of Bruce Bay, take a left at Condons Road, and you will find the stud farm of South Westland identity Thomas Condon. Four Hereford heifers, a mix of polled and horned, were selected by Thomas Condon snr in 1975, providing the basis for Flagstaff Herefords which today is...

• Changing times at Waipuna Station

  Before sheep farmer Samuel Meggitt Mackley settled at Waipuna in 1860, the West Coast was the sole domain of Poutini Ngai Tahu....

• Stud farming of Mahitahi

  Down State highway 6, south of Bruce Bay, take a left at Condons Road, and you will find the stud farm of South Westland identity Thomas Condon. Four Hereford heifers, a mix of polled and horned, were selected by Thomas Condon snr in 1975, providing the basis for Flagstaff Herefords which today is...

• Calving at the Kennedy's farm

  Straddling the Atarau road in the Grey Valley, the Kennedy farm runs along the banks of the Grey River, flanked at one end by the Craigieburn, and Rough river. Where once the 400ha ran sheep and beef, today there is a herd of around 800 milking cows. West Coast Grassroots visited on a sunny August...

• Carrying on the Foster name

  A long and productive chapter closed on Grey Valley farming and agriculture with the sad passing of Russell 'Brent' Foster in November last year. An Ahaura-based contractor for 50 years, RB Foster all began with a small 1938 International tractor. MEG FULFORD sat down with the Foster family in...

• West Coast Dairy Award Winners

  Robyn Mare of Greymouth was named the 2022 West Coast/Top of the South Dairy Manager of the Year at the 2022 West Coast/Top of the South Dairy Industry Awards dinner held in Shantytown last Thursday....

• The mail must get through!

  Mahia Fisher's rural delivery van is a reliable feature on our country roads, and Grassroots reporter MEG FULFORD spent a day with her to see what it takes to get your mail and packages from A to B, and the reasons Mahia loves her role so much....

• Carrying on the Foster name

  A long and productive chapter closed on Grey Valley farming and agriculture with the sad passing of Russell 'Brent' Foster in November last year. An Ahaura-based contractor for 50 years, RB Foster all began with a small 1938 International tractor. MEG FULFORD sat down with the Foster family in...

• Karamea Born And Bred

  Kongahu Straight, just north of Little Wanganui, has been home to Russell Anderson for nearly 77 years....