Shawn McAvinue

Hilly paddock grazing plan helpful

Windsor Park Dairies owner Callum and Twyla Kingan share details on their winter cropping and...

Hilly paddock grazing plan helpful

Putting down on paper a considered plan for grazing dairy cows on crops grown on a hilly paddock on a North Otago farm will make it easier to get a consent to continue doing it next winter, a...

‘We should all be so proud’: farmers reflect on year

Dynamic s a great word to describe New Zealand’s dairy farmers in 2022, South Island Dairy Event committee chairwoman Anna Wakelin says.

View photos: Bull sale result ‘bit disheartening’

Inspecting Hereford bull Foulden Hill King 2000725, after paying the highest price of $11,500 for...

View photos: Bull sale result ‘bit disheartening’

A couple of Strath Taieri stud owners are taking their sale results "on the chin" and using it as motivation to continue breeding better bulls.

Recipe: Pumpkin soup

Judith Speden, of Roxburgh, shares her recipe for the pumpkin soup she served at the 43rd annual Limehills Herefords bull sale in Millers Flat.

Planting on marginal land promoted

Neil Cullen (left) and his son Simon Cullen are having a pine plantation forestry harvested on...

Planting on marginal land promoted

As the final trees are harvested in a forestry block on a South Otago sheep and beef farm this week, its owners are encouraging other southerners to look at production forestry as a way to add...

Change of tack for Hereford stud

Stoneburn Herefords owner Andy Denham has launched an Angus stud on his farm in East Otago. PHOTO...

Change of tack for Hereford stud

An East Otago stud which has been breeding Hereford cattle for more than 30 years is changing tack to include another herd, coloured black.

Chocolate fudge the Sally Law way

Sally Law and her eldest grandson, Tieke Runga (13), eat chocolate fudge at the 11th annual...

Chocolate fudge the Sally Law way

Sally Law shares her recipe for the chocolate fudge she served at the 11th annual Waimara Angus bull sale in East Otago.

Top bulls, confidence making for good sales

Top bulls, confidence making for good sales

Quality bulls and confidence in the beef industry is resulting in good clearances at sales in the South, agents say.

Family realising collective dream of Southland farm

Waimara Angus co-owners Kate and Chris Pont in a paddock of the headliners at the Waimara Angus...

Family realising collective dream of Southland farm

A family is realising a dream of "coming home" to own a farm in Western Southland.

‘Crazy money’ spent at Limehills bull sale

Bull Limehills Blast, Lot 1, fetched the highest price of $42,000 at Limehills Herefords’ 43rd...

‘Crazy money’ spent at Limehills bull sale

A Hereford bull sold for "crazy money" at a bull sale in Teviot Valley last week.

Limehills Blast Hereford bull sells for ‘crazy’ $42,000

Bull Limehills Blast, Lot 1, fetched the highest price of $42,000 at the Limehills Herefords 43rd...

Limehills Blast Hereford bull sells for ‘crazy’ $42,000

A Hereford bull sold for "crazy money" at a bull sale in Teviot Valley last week.

Recipe: Pork belly burgers at Maniototo sale

Wild Az owner Sam Pickford, of Dunedin, serves a pork belly burger at a bull sale in the...

Recipe: Pork belly burgers at Maniototo sale

In a new series, Shawn McAvinue asks food producers at rural events in the South to share their recipes.

Tough conditions produce good stock

Getting stock ready for the Taiaroa & Cotswold Charolais Bull Sale in the Maniototo last week...

Tough conditions produce good stock

Extreme weather conditions on a high-country station in the Maniototo allow for the best breeding of Charolais cattle in the country, Glen Ayr Station manager Drew Dundass says.

Staying in the hunt

Millers Flat Collie Club president Cam Bain, of Moa Flat, will compete in the North Island and New Zealand sheep dog trial championships in the King Country from Monday. Shawn McAvinue asks...

Lone Pine sale the last

The 25th annual bull sale at Lone Pine Simmental stud in West Otago tomorrow will be the last.

Founding trust member calls it a day after 15 years

Southland Rural Support Trust trustee Russell Falconer (69) is set to call time on his 15 years...

Founding trust member calls it a day after 15 years

After launching the organisation now known as Southland Rural Support Trust, farmer Russell Falconer is not seeking re-election at the trust’s annual meeting in Invercargill today.

Huge changes going to free-range operation in largest egg business

Zeagold Nutrition Hillgrove manager Hayden Baughan and agribusiness general manager Judith Mair...

Huge changes going to free-range operation in largest egg business

Shawn McAvinue visits two Zeagold Nutrition facilities in East Otago, including a free-range farm near Moeraki, which supplies some of the 650,000 eggs graded in Waikouaiti every day of the year, and finds happy hens and an industry in its final stage of reset.

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