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Southern Rural Life, 15 Jul 2026

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Southern Rural Life is the leading rural newspaper in the South, filled with wide-ranging news and views on the primary industries as well as the local people that work within the sector. Delivered free to every rural mailbox in Otago and Southland, from the Waitaki River to Bluff.

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ArticleBunny battle broadens

Rab­bits con­tinue to thrive des­pite a con­tinual effort to con­trol them, a Waihola dairy farmer says. ‘‘They keep com­ing back at us,’’ Nigel Hal­lis said, look­ing at scores of rab­bits in one of his pad­docks. ‘‘We are try­ing our best but we...

Bunny battle broadens

ArticleBunny battle broadens

Rab­bits con­tinue to thrive des­pite a con­tinual effort to con­trol them, a Waihola dairy farmer says. ‘‘They keep com­ing back at us,’’ Nigel Hal­lis said, look­ing at scores of rab­bits in one of his pad­docks. ‘‘We are try­ing our best but we...

Bunny battle broadens

ArticleBarn to ‘future-proof’ fam­ily farm

The intro­duc­tion of winter milk­ing will help pay for the con­struc­tion of a more than $2 mil­lion barn on a fam­ily dairy farm in South­land. A Lower Apar­ima Catch­ment Group tour stopped at 216ha dairy prop­erty Welsh Fam­ily Farms in Gum­mies...

Barn to ‘future-proof’ fam­ily farm

ArticleBale-graz­ing win­ter­ing sys­tem hailed

Cattle are warm and happy eat­ing and lying on hay in a pad­dock dur­ing winter, South­land farm­ers say. Sheep, beef and dairy gra­zi­ers Laura and Justin Davie show­cased their bale­graz­ing sys­tem on their 230ha farm Longview in Fair­fax,...

Bale-graz­ing win­ter­ing sys­tem hailed