Toni Williams

Rural life coach Frances Beeston has taken on the role of Rural Support Trust (RST) Mid Canterbury welfare co-ordinator for the Mycoplasma bovis response.

Communication and compensation were some of the issues raised by Canterbury farmers dealing with Mycoplasma bovis phased eradication at meetings in Ashburton last week.

Methven arable farmer Hamish Marr is Mid Canterbury's latest Nuffield New Zealand scholar.

The battle of the Mid Canterbury Women's Institutes in the Home Industries Pavilion at the Ashburton A&P Show last month, went to relative newcomers to the Mid Canterbury Federation, Temuka.

The Rural Support Trust (RST) Mid Canterbury welfare co-ordinator for Mycoplasma bovis response has resigned.

A couple of recent tractor fires in Mid Canterbury, likely caused by birds nesting, has Fire and Emergency New Zealand (Fenz) warning farmers to be vigilant and check farm machinery before use, to...

New Zealand Dairy Collaborative Ltd is looking for staff for its new milk-powder canning plant in Ashburton. The plant, in its final weeks of construction and set-up, has been years in development...

It has taken almost 20 years but hemp seed can now be sold as food.

Farmers need to be open and transparent about their farming practices, says BBC rural journalist, and farmer's daughter, Anna Jones.

A visual display of tractors celebrating decades of pulling power by tractor greats John Deere, Nuffield and Massey Ferguson helped showcase the Mid Canterbury Vintage Machinery Club's new purpose...

As Mid Canterbury farmers deal with a some high-profile farming challenges, agriculture minister Damien O'Connor is reminding them to remember the light at the end of the tunnel.

At the Ashburton Fanciers' Society spring auction this month, day-old chicks, fertile eggs and hundreds of poultry streamed out the door of Ashburton's Sports Hall to all corners of the South Island.

Stress levels experienced by farmers affected by Mycopasma bovis are untenable, Mid Canterbury Rural Support Trust welfare co-ordinator Angela Cushnie says.

The New Zealand Ploughing Association executive team gathered in Mid Canterbury last week to inspect the ground for the 2019 New Zealand Ploughing Championships, to be held in Chertsey next year.

Crozier's Free Range Ltd are bringing duck to the plates of everyday Kiwis with their new commercially grown, 100% free-range duck products.

The value of irrigation to Mid Canterbury's landowners was showcased to the thousands of people visiting the 141st annual Ashburton A&P Show on Friday and Saturday.

Two cases of potato mop-top virus have been confirmed in Mid Canterbury, but many more are suspected, Biosecurity New Zealand says.

Mid Canterbury Federation of Women's Institutes (WI) half-yearly competitions were hosted earlier this month by Wakanui WI, at the Wakanui Hall.

Some Mid Canterbury farmers dealing with Mycoplasma bovis (M. bovis) need minimal changes to their farming operations but others are having to make contingency plans on a daily basis, Mid...

The New Zealand Groundspread Fertilisers Association's new national biosecurity guidelines, preventing the spread of weed and pest diseases, have been welcomed by Federated Farmers' Mid Canterbury...