Shawn McAvinue

Life is busy for Taieri dairy farmer Ryan Sutherland.

A call is being made for the classes of the Otago-Southland Hoof and Hook Beef Competition to be split between traditional and exotic breeds to attract more competitors.

The community is set to come together for a good cause in Northern Southland on Friday.

Cows creating compost in a former cheese factory and heifers and sheep feasting on swedes were stops on a tour of winter grazing systems in Southland.

Dairy farmer Ryan Sutherland bought his family's farm on the Taieri earlier this month. He talks to Shawn McAvinue about the benefits of composting barns and the value of life experience. 

More than 70 black bulls were on offer at the 23rd annual Fossil Creek Angus bull sale in North Otago last week.

In the series, Shawn McAvinue asks the people making the food served at bull sales in the South to share their recipes.

Buyers came from across New Zealand to bid on black at the 23rd annual Fossil Creek Angus bull sale in North Otago last week.

Tractor dealership JJ Ltd is opening a new branch in Cromwell.

More than $80,000 was raised for the 2023 Taieri Winter Crop Competition and Charity Auction.

Bull Monymusk Quebec 210042 sold for the top price of $14,000 at the Monymusk Polled Herefords 35th annual bull sale in Te Anau.

Central Otago sheep and beef farmers Geof and Joyce Brown have sold their farm and are set to retire, ending a career of more than half a century breeding Hereford cattle.

A fit-out of a historic Clutha cottage is under way to open a headquarters for the New Zealand Century Farms and Station Awards.

Some top Holstein Friesian genetics are heading South after dispersal sales across New Zealand.

A Southland vegetable grower is singing the praises of a project mapping soil types to help them make better management decisions.

Sheep and beef farmer and Country Living presenter Matt Chisholm is bringing his Time Out Tour to Middlemarch on Friday.

Sub-zero temperatures did not deter scores of people attending Earnscleugh Station’s 38th annual bull sale near Alexandra last week.

Rising 2-year-old bull Peters Angus 21241 sold for the top price of $12,000 at the Peters Angus 14th annual bull sale in Beaumont last week.

In a series, Shawn McAvinue asks the people making the food served at bull sales in the South to share their recipes.