South Island coloured sheep farmers are regrouping as a lifestyle breed for a bright future without the numbers of their heyday. Their plan is to bring in more lifestyle block owners carrying black and coloured sheep to supply growing...
Relentless rain, cold temperatures and snow in the back country has made for a freezing start to this year's lambing season. Federated Farmers Southland meat and wool chairman and Wyndham sheep farmer Ben Dooley and his wife Sarah are...
Powerful and at times emotional speeches from members of the public implored the Central Otago District Council not to allow human waste from Alexandra and Cromwell to be spread on Lauder farmland. The council decided last Wednesday to...
A family supplying livestock ear tags globally from a farm near England’s Wheddon Cross village in Exmoor National Park have big plans for their Mosgiel branch. Shearwell Data was founded in 1992 by Richard and Carolyne Webber after he...