The best way to install a fence is continually evolving and fencing contractors can separate themselves from the cowboys by attending bestpractice days, a southern industry spokesman says.
There’s a few more silver hairs on his head and his children are all grown up, but Maniototo farmer Stu Duncan can still be found on the back field at Maniototo Area School, coaching local...
Next week more light will be shed on who will be the standout among four top operators in a competition celebrating excellence in sustainable irrigation.
A small rust fungus has begun its battle as a biocontrol agent against invasive Chilean needle grass after the first release of its kind in the world in Marlborough and Canterbury.
Forest & Bird is worried that without a new land and water plan in place soon a gap in Otago’s planning framework could allow for an intensification of farming.
Tarras farmer Sam Spiers admits he did not know much about solar when he first pondered an alternative power source to pump water uphill to his irrigation pivots.