Caterpillar migration
Caterpillar collection heads south ... The great grandchildren of Tracey and Peggy Gough, the founders of the Gough Group, from left, Harriet Gough, Georgia...
Huge 130-year-old cedar is cut down to size
By ROBYN BRISTOW
Sawdust flies as the butt end of a huge cedar is pushed through a Rimu break down saw at Harleston Road, near...
Helping hand for groups
A native walkway though waste land adjacent to the Waikari’s Village Green has been given a hand up.
The Waikari Volunteer Fire Brigade has been...
Trial produces abundant grass in Nth Canty
North Canterbury sheep and beef farmer, Hamish Murray, got more grass than he bargained for this spring when trialling liquid nitrogen and gibberellic acid.
Mr...
Fernside plastics factory attracts complaints
By SHELLEY TOPP
A large number of complaints have been lodged with the Waimakariri District Council about the Advantage Plastics factory on rural land in...
Teagan eyes the future of farming
Scholarship awarded . . . Teagan Graham, of Rangiora, has received a Silver Fern Farms scholarship. PHOTO: SUPPLIED
By DAVID HILL
A passion for animals and...
Action packed three days at 150th show
By DAVID HILL
The Topp Twins are coming to Rangiora to help celebrate the 150th Northern (Rangiora) Agricultural and Pastoral Show.
The iconic New Zealand performers...
Furrowed brows
Farmers were all concentration at the North Canterbury Ploughing Match Association's annual ploughing match at Alan Winter's Swannanoa farm on Sunday (20 May)
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The association...
The highs of working with Lowlines
Phil and Kay Worthington are humbled and surprised at being awarded a Kiwibank New Zealand Local Hero medal.
The Fernside farming couple, who own Woolstone...
Committee is broken – advocate
By ROBYN BRISTOW
The Hurunui District Council has been challenged to withdraw from the Hurunui-Waiau Zone Committee.
Rural Advocacy Network (RAN) chairman Jamie McFadden questioned the...
