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Canterbury Rural Life is delivered monthly to RDs in Canterbury, from the Waitaki River in the south to the Waimakariri River in the north. Canterbury Rural Life brings you the very latest in local news, events and people in the rural sector.
On a wintry day, the faintest of sea breezes wafts along the yard as Colin Hurst opens the office door to the cow shed. Inside, his son, Nick, and contract milker Jamie Harris are on a video meeting, ticking off a work list from a propped up laptop.
Plantain’s reduction of nitrogen losses by 33% in dairy pastures in a Canterbury trial has scientists wanting to push it out to more farmers. The final results from the fouryear farmlet trial at Lincoln University Research Dairy Farm...
The writing has been on the wall to expect an El Nino for some time after early predictions by climate scientists. Earth Sciences New Zealand (ESNZ) declared the weather phenomenon was on its way in early July after Australia’s...
On a wintry day, the faintest of sea breezes wafts along the yard as Colin Hurst opens the office door to the cow shed. Inside, his son, Nick, and contract milker Jamie Harris are on a video meeting, ticking off a work list from a propped up laptop.