The Wool Impact body, charged with reviving the strong wool industry, has high hopes a new navigator role will steer more innovation into the marketplace.
The results of trials stimulating the soil’s microbiology with organic material from long-buried vegetation were revealed at a field day at the Mackenzie Country’s Glenbrook and Westside stations.
AgResearch emeritus scientist Stephen Goldson and his team are looking for more wins after taking on an elusive project to tame evil weevils, writes Tim Cronshaw.
A group of 12 to 15 arable farmers are counting about $6 million in losses from a late hail storm landing in a belt running from Canterbury’s Methven to Highbank.
A retired teacher who's a dab hand at knitting and spinning runs five flocks of purebred coloured sheep so he can provide handcraft buyers virtually every wool option they need, writes Tim Cronshaw.
A top lineup, including New Zealand’s victorious triallists in the two-test transtasman sheep dog trial series against Australia, are heading for a major showdown in South Canterbury this week.
Who would believe it - a sheep and beef farm with virtual fencing? Tim Cronshaw talks to a North Canterbury farmer who reels off a bunch of reasons for putting his hand up.
A top lineup, including New Zealand’s victorious triallists in the two-test transtasman sheep dog trial series against Australia, are heading for a major showdown in South Canterbury next month.
Hurunui’s Stuart Fraser is just a few months away from being among the first beef farmers to buy into the hi-tech collars and fenceless farming that’s made a big impression on dairying.