Sally Brooker

National Lamb Day was celebrated on May 24 at the place where New Zealand's frozen meat industry began 137 years ago - Totara Estate.

North Otago farmers have raised more than $64,000 for charity while growing great fodder for their livestock.

Rural women are underpaid and undervalued despite their multiple contributions to their farm, family, home and community, Fiona Gower says.

North Otago farmers are urged to show their sector in a positive light during winter grazing.

An Oamaru secondary school pupil will represent New Zealand in a transtasman equestrian competition.

The weather may have frowned upon the Little Rakaia Boating Club's fundraising gala last month, but the event was still deemed a success.

A small-scale dairy farm on the outskirts of Oamaru is about to start selling milk in bottles. Sally Brooker reports.

Work is well under way on a North Otago phosphorus study.

An irrigation project making a big splash in the Waitaki Valley is on schedule.

Four of the main issues concerning rural women - health, education, safety, and the environment - are on the agenda at an Oamaru conference.

People of all ages pitched in to plant a rest area on the Alps 2 Ocean cycle trail through North Otago farmland last week.

A pilot project helping farmers make the most of the One Billion Trees Fund has generated a lot of interest.

Finding out the source of phosphate in water may help meet water quality regulations, reports Sally Brooker.

Usually, it’s the kids who leave home. In the Watt family, it was the parents.

Lamb sales are soaring in the high country.

Waitaki Boys' High School is preparing senior pupils for careers related to the primary sector.

Oamaru agricultural consultant Alan Harvey is the Aorangi FMG Young Farmer of the Year.

Geraldine High School dominated the Junior FMG Young Farmer of the Year Aorangi competition in Oamaru on Saturday.

A Waitaki Valley sheep station has helped 1000 surveyors into their careers.

Visitors filled the Oamaru Showgrounds on Friday and Saturday for the 156th North Otago A&P Show.