The Otago Regional Council is urging farmers to consider the potential impacts of an El Nino summer and its effects on farm operations, soil moisture and water supplies.
A soil carbon measurement experiment is under way at the Southern Dairy Hub near Invercargill in a bid to shed light on carbon sequestration on New Zealand dairy farms.
Research on a South Island dairy farm shows farmers should be doing their homework on the type of supplementary feed they provide their cows, a ruminant feed manufacturer says.
A new report shows new and proposed environmental regulations are creating a significant financial burden on sheep and beef farmers in Otago and Southland.
A Canterbury stud master has been road-tripping around the South Island in search of deer antlers to make "chandeliers, door knobs" and supply to the "Chinese cooking market".
West Otago farmer Al Body is giving his time, land and ingenuity to a detainment bund project in a bid to reduce storm water contaminants entering the Pomahaka River.