Tim Cronshaw

A near full house has 300 dairy farmers signed up for the three-day South Island Dairy Event (Side) at Lincoln University next week.

Fonterra’s starting mark of an $8 midpoint for next season’s milk price forecast dips below bank predictions.

McDonald’s diners are prepared to pay only lip service to beef sustainability with the price of a burger front-of-mind when they make their order.

Seasoned shearers will work their way through 3000 sheep over eight hours at a Hinds woolshed next year in memory of old mates lost to cancer.

South Canterbury irrigation co-operative Opuha Water is pointing to the discovery of indications of freshwater crayfish life in the Kakahu River as a positive sign.

A beef roundtable is committed to maintaining a sustainability course despite looming trading challenges.

A 76-year-old blacksmith is keeping the forge alive for the rural community.

Canterbury farmers are among the frontrunners for the Rural Hero of the Year category in the Primary Industries New Zealand (PINZ) Awards.

Arable farmers with fuller silos of the six main cereal crops from a better harvest than last season seem to be taking a cautious approach to autumn and winter sowing.

McDonald’s diners are prepared to pay only lip service to beef sustainability with the price of a burger front of mind when they make their order.

Disgruntled sheep farmers have come out of a Cheviot meeting with a little more hope the wool industry can dig its way out of a big hole.

Wool researchers are getting closer to commercialising new pigments after making a technical breakthrough.

Wool researchers are getting closer to commercialising new pigments after making a technical breakthrough.

Hororata farmer John Grigg is helping a multi-agency project keep trout and eels out of a stretch of the Bealey Stream so the critically threatened Canterbury mudfish can thrive.

Canterbury dairy farmers are sitting tight rather than banking on signals for a mid-$8 payout next season.

A long farming stint dating back to 1843 by a Banks Peninsula family takes some beating, writes Tim Cronshaw.

Hororata farmer John Grigg is helping a multi-agency project keep trout and eels out of a stretch of the Bealey Stream so the critically threatened Canterbury mudfish can thrive.

Wool researchers are getting closer to commercialising new pigments after making a technical breakthrough.

Australian pest control expert Dr Paul Horne likes nothing better than to squeeze a caterpillar apart to see if a maggot is wriggling inside.

Christchurch-based Anzco Foods’ $60.9 million profit after tax is going against the tide of major meat processors recording losses.