Toni Williams

Some Mid Canterbury farmers dealing with Mycoplasma bovis (M. bovis) need minimal changes to their farming operations but others are having to make contingency plans on a daily basis, Mid...

The New Zealand Groundspread Fertilisers Association's new national biosecurity guidelines, preventing the spread of weed and pest diseases, have been welcomed by Federated Farmers' Mid Canterbury...

A product called Satellite Imagery, giving a detailed bird's-eye view of farm productivity to growers, is now available through the Foundation for Arable Research's ProductionWise programme.

Testing is under way on Mid Canterbury potato tubers to determine how widespread potato mop-top virus may be.

Day-old chicks, fertile eggs and hundreds of poultry will be on offer at the Ashburton Fanciers Society annual Spring Poultry Auction in Ashburton this month.

There is ''renewed opportunity'' for landowners to get into carbon trees, Carbon Forest Services managing director Ollie Belton says.

Dave O'Donnell has been an Ashburton District Council water ranger for more than a quarter of a century.

Mid Canterbury now has its own Rural Support Trust welfare co-ordinator, a local woman who is helping people in the community deal with issues concerning Mycoplasma bovis.

Ashburton's Midland Apiaries has created complex packaging with soft-touch laminate and labelling infused with invisible ink to combat international counterfeiting of their liquid gold product -...

Thousands of kilometres were clocked up when Ryal Bush Transport Ashburton hosted its annual Smiles4miles community event, offering vehicle rides to people with special needs or facing day-to-day...

Mid Canterbury's first deer industry technology expo in Ashburton recently enabled farmers to get one-on-one advice about smart farming solutions from industry representatives in a relaxed, open...

Mid Canterbury's new poultry farm, owned by Kiwi Free Range Ltd, has successfully raised its first run of chickens. It had 50,000 chickens shipped from shed one to poultry giant, Tegel New Zealand,...

AgriKids NZ Grand Final winners from Ashburton Intermediate School - the AIS Fencers - convincingly won a fun, agri-challenge mini event against some of the school's staff last week.

Mid Canterbury farmers may be in the thick of it, dealing with Mycoplasma bovis, but they need to keep up their record-keeping and farm biosecurity and talk to one another, says a Ministry for...

Mid Canterbury A&P show organisers are treading cautiously around showing cattle in the wake of Mycoplasma bovis and the nationwide attempt to eradicate the bovine disease.

The difference between a normal and abnormal calving, animal care during calving and looking after newborn calves were topics at a DairyNZ CalvingSmart workshop in Hinds recently.

Faecal micro-organisms, nitrogen, phosphorus, sediment and contaminants all affect water quality.