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The future for irrigating farmers in Otago will come under the spotlight at IrrigationNZ's first-ever AGM in the region next month.

Dairy farmers in Otago and Southland have taken a hit from unseasonal high winds that have demolished haybarns and generally disrupted their farming.

West Otago farmers Richard and Kerry France waited close to eight years to enter the Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA), finally giving it a go last year.

A cold wet winter and the low payout is a disaster for Southland dairy farmers, says DairyNZ.

It is one brand with one owner and one varietal wine but from this year onwards, the winery formerly known as Surveyor Thomson has rebranded to Domaine-Thomson (no relation to this writer) and acquired land in Burgundy. 

Next week will see some of New Zealand's best young fruit growers battle it out for the inaugural Central Otago Young Fruit Grower 2015 competition.

Luck of the draw won’t come into it when the 32 competitors in this year’s New Zealand Ploughing Championships put steel to soil next month, says the host farmer.

 A 1080 poison drop in the Blue Mountains, Otago, has knocked rodent and stoat numbers down to “undetectable levels”, says OSPRI, which runs the TBfree scheme.

Whatever it takes, don’t disrupt your capital stock to cope with the drought. That’s the headline message from a seasoned Canterbury consultant who’s seen the region go through severely dry seasons in over 40 years in the industry.

THE HEAVY snow showers falling in Southland and Otago have come at a bad time with most dairy farmers well into calving.