CROPPING FARMERS in Canterbury and North Otago face a soggy battle to get winter cereals sown after another belt of rain swept the region this week.

VISITORS AT the Canterbury Ballance Farm Environment Awards’ 2012  supreme winner’s field day last month may well have felt somewhat ‘blown away’, in more ways than one.

ADVERSITY MAKES you struggle, so think and look for answers, say horticulture industry pioneers and innovators Fay and Joe Gock.

Increasing yields in all areas of agricultural production have helped farmers to maintain profitability in the face of ever-increasing input costs.

AUTO STEERING and GPS guidance on a Massey Ferguson MF8650 tractor are benefitting a 650ha mixed farm at Sheffield, Canterbury.

A company credited for revolutionising the apple industry by creating a market for fruit that used to be "mopped up as rubbish" has turned 50.