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North Canterbury farmer Alistair Bird — also known as Kiwi Farmer — is the winner of the people’s choice competition in this year’s Otago Daily Times-Rural Life Rural Champions initiative.

Scientists steered well clear of falling into the trap of putting nitrogen into the category of friend or foe in a science conference at Lincoln University.

Lincoln University’s record student numbers are on a strong growth curve with half of them studying for postgraduate qualifications.

High country farmers are glad to see the back of a late snow storm landing in the middle of merino lambing and hoggets about to give birth in Canterbury.

Some rural councils in the South do more than provide a pay packet to get employees on the books. Others, though, believe the peace and quiet actually attracts people to the smaller towns.

For those residents concerned over potholes, help is on the way.

While the weather woes of the last two months have been very well publicised and degrees of hardship not seen in many years, it has been great to hear many stories directly from farmers who have...

Free workshops on managing risk in sharefarming begin in the South tomorrow.

Soft prices for sheepmeat and wool helped fuel a debate about possible future land-use changes on a hill country farm in North Otago.