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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.
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.
A seaweed grower is “lobbying hard” for a legislation change so the native red plant grown in Southland can get government approval for use as a methane inhibitor in ruminant animals. Asparagopsis Technologies executive director...
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...
Forestry Minister Todd McClay is backing the emissions trading system and does not want planted trees taken out of the system. Mr McClay was in Dunedin on Thursday to speak at the NZ Institute of Forestry conference. He said forestry was an...