Shawn McAvinue

About 60 people attended the West Otago A&P Society hogget and two-tooth ewe, beef and dairy heifer competition in Tapanui last week.

Sheep and beef farmer George McEwan is calling time on his family’s more than 70-year tenure of a farm on the Southland Plains.

Gore Sheep Dog Trial Club held its 116th annual trial on rolling tussock country  in the Hokonui Hills last week.

Life working and living in the Hokonui Hills is a "special time", Gore Sheep Dog Trial Club president Tain Laing says.

Dunedin student Georgia Te Raki is among the latest recipients of the Meat Industry Association scholarship programme.

Southern shepherd Lucia White is ready to take the first step of following in her grandfather’s footsteps.

Southland teenager Myah Dean is the winner of a prize to grow her dairy cattle showing knowledge.

Salmonella is "slamming" cows on dairy farms in the South, Gore vet Karen Nicholson says.

The McRae family are upscaling their sheep stud in Eastern Southland.

The Murphy family, who milk the largest Shorthorn herd in Southland, are calling time on more than a century with the British breed.

Salmonella is "slamming" cows on dairy farms in the South, a vet says.

A central Southland dog trial club with a more than 100-year history is unlikely to return.

A lengthy delay to making silage in Southland is over for a sheep farmer playing "catch-up" following a wet spring.

Prime beef carcasses have a new stop on a chain at Alliance Group’s Mataura processing plant.

A lengthy delay to making silage in Southland is over for a sheep farmer playing "catch-up" following a wet spring.

Paul and Isabel Murphy milk the most Shorthorn cows in Southland.

After more than 20 years, Canterbury couple Jason and Tracey McDonald are returning to farm in the South after buying a sheep and beef property in West Otago.

Rising confidence in the sheep sector is boosting demand at ewe and lamb sales in the South.