Shawn McAvinue

Shawn McAvinue talks to Upper Manuherikia Young Farmers Club president Hope Oliver between droving a herd of cattle at the Omakau Second Calf Sale in Central Otago last week.

The Allison family have been tilling the soil on their family farm in Clutha for nearly 140 years.

A West Otago dairy trainee is on a path to reach her full potential in the dairy industry.

Dairy farming is "quicker and bigger" in New Zealand, a British expat milking cows in West Otago says.

Western Southland sharemilkers Michael and Shahn Smith are reaching for the stars.

A series of workshops to help farmers get their intensive winter grazing consents sorted is being extended.

A West Otago dairy trainee is on a path to reach her full potential in the dairy industry.

About 80 people attended a field day of the Southland and Otago regional winners of the New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards in Riverton last week. 

Dairy farming is "quicker and bigger" in New Zealand, a British expat milking cows in West Otago says.

Western Southland sharemilkers Michael and Shahn Smith will represent the South in the share farmer of the year category at the New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards in Auckland next month.

Shawn McAvinue spends five minutes talking to New Zealand Young Farmers Otago and Southland treasurer and Thornbury Young Farmers Club chairwoman Emma Wilson...

Southern fare shone at the Outstanding New Zealand Food Producer Awards.

Scores of people attended the Beef + Lamb New Zealand genetics progeny test field day at Pamu’s Kepler Farm in Manapouri last week.

A beef progeny programme on a state-owned farm in Fiordland aims to demonstrate the power of cross breeding, a geneticist says.

After more than 30 years of breeding Holstein Friesian cows, Northern Southland farmers Stuart and Julia Eden are taking a step back.

A portable accumulation chamber trailer measured the methane emissions of rams at Wharetoa Genetic in South Otago for two days from Tuesday last week.

A dairy farm with a nearly 150-year history of breeding Jersey cows in the South is calling time and selling up.

Dunedin entrepreneur Pieter Brits is growing his business in a bid to plant more permanent native forests.

After surviving a life-threatening stroke, a Dunedin still designer is uniting with a local lavender grower to export essential oils around the world.

The two-day Tarras Collie Dog Club centennial trials begins in Central Otago tomorrow.