Lockdown deliveries keep egg farmer busy
Lockdown deliveries keep egg farmer busy
A Dunedin egg farmer has been able to sell during alert levels by continuing a plan hatched during lockdown last year.
Shawn McAvinue
Multiple arrivals ‘pretty cute’
Multiple arrivals ‘pretty cute’
A flock of cute lambs are arriving thick and fast in Mosgiel.
Call for winter grazing submissions
Call for winter grazing submissions
The fight against unworkable regulations continues and farmers should write a submission on proposed changes to intensive winter grazing regulations, Groundswell NZ co-founder Bryce McKenzie says.
Bee smart
Bee smart: Covid detection method inspires apiarists
A group of southern apiarists is using the same scientific method to fight a disease killing their bees that is being used to detect Covid-19.
Collective approach to fight disease
Collective approach to fight disease
A molecular biologist is applauding a group of southern apiarists uniting to fight a disease killing bees.
Hope tool can eliminate American Foulbrood
Hope tool can eliminate American Foulbrood
A new technology helping fight against a bee-killing disease is a "massive breakthrough", an Otago apiarist says.
Beekeepers embrace new method to detect foulbrood
Beekeepers embrace new method to detect foulbrood
A molecular biologist is applauding a group of southern apiarists uniting to fight a disease killing bees.
Concerns remain at Level 3
Concerns remain at Level 3
Farmers’ concerns about the potential impact of Covid-19 remain despite the South moving to Covid-19 Alert Level 3 today.
DNA detection for beehive battle
DNA detection for beehive battle
A group of Southern apiarists has a new tool to fight a disease killing their bees by using the same technology used to detect Covid-19.
Swabbing ‘game-changer’
Swabbing ‘game-changer’
A new technology helping fight against a bee-killing disease is a ‘‘massive breakthrough’’, an Otago apiarist says.
Sheep dwindle, but beef on rise
Sheep dwindle, but beef on rise
The national beef herd is up but the sheep flock is down — hoggets ‘‘substantially’’ in Southland, a survey shows.
Business as usual, say Southern farmers
Business as usual, say Southern farmers
Southern farmers are taking a national lockdown “in our stride” and “getting on with it”.
Survivor hails safety feature
Survivor hails safety feature
As WorkSafe is warning farmers about fatalities on-farm spiking in spring, cattle farmer Russell Clearwater talks to Shawn McAvinue about how crush protection on his quad bike saved his life.
Sweet side hustle key to survival
Sweet side hustle key to survival
A North Otago family is finding new ways to add value to its summerfruit business in a bid to survive decades of stagnant prices and rising operational costs. Shawn McAvinue reports.
Career dream furthered by internship
Career dream furthered by internship
Ella Zwagerman knew the career to target after a summer job at a meat works, when she had finished at Southland Girls’ High School.
Farm dream from bullock wagon
Farm dream from bullock wagon
A dream to farm in North Otago began on a bullock wagon.
Father aiming to set son up for dairy farm ownership
Father aiming to set son up for dairy farm ownership
The 25-year history of a family sharemilking on the same South Otago property is set to continue and grow.
One family but many changes
One family but many changes
Five generations of the Woodhead family have lived and worked for more than a century on sheep and beef farm Glenkelrie, in Milton.
Tour spurs career move
Tour spurs career move
Southern students considering careers in the red meat sector were among the Silver Fern Farms Plate to Pasture youth scholarship recipients of 2021. In a series, Shawn McAvinue asks them about...
Signed and sealed
Signed and sealed
Gore Mayor Tracy Hicks (left) and Mataura Valley Milk chief executive Bernard May shake hands during an online signing ceremony last week, linking parties in Gore, Beijing and Australia involved in...