Displaying items by tag: south island

Monday, 16 February 2015 00:00

Hoping drought is a single season hit

Despite dying winter feed crops and increasingly crisp pasture, losses due to the central South Island drought could still be ring-fenced to this season, says a dairy farmer representative in the hard hit region.

Published in General News
Thursday, 12 February 2015 12:52

Drought declared in South Island

Primary Industries Minister Nathan Guy has today officially declared the drought conditions on the east coast of the South Island as being a medium-scale adverse event.

Published in General News
Friday, 06 February 2015 00:00

Drought-breaker needed for parched south

An easterly airflow promised brief respite from the central South Island’s dry late last week but a drought-breaking weather system is desperately needed, farmers’ leaders and industry representatives say.

Published in General News
Friday, 23 January 2015 00:00

Lupin gains traction in high country

An early growing, nitrogen fixing, acid and aluminium tolerant plant is promising to transform productivity of New Zealand’s low fertility high country, with a grower at the forefront of its introduction reporting up to an eighteen-fold increase in stock carrying capacity.

Published in Management
Thursday, 22 January 2015 00:00

More fire bans likely

The hot dry weather has seen total fire bans imposed on many parts of the South Island and Wairarapa will soon have one, says Federated Farmers national vice president Anders Crofoot.

Published in General News
Thursday, 02 May 2013 08:50

First Fonterra milk packs head south

The first container of Fonterra Milk for Schools packs for the South Island has left Auckland, with support from Mainfreight and Pacifica Shipping.

Published in General News
Wednesday, 24 April 2013 14:58

Global processor breaks into South Island

ONE OF the world’s biggest dairy companies has broken ground on a site for a factory in the South Island.

Published in General News
Tuesday, 23 April 2013 16:12

Overseas manufacturers back local exhibitors

SEVERAL EXHIBITORS at the recent South Island Agricultural Field Days, Lincoln, were supported by manufacturers who’d flown half-way round the world to support their products.

Published in Machinery & Products
Friday, 15 March 2013 14:51

Wool stays firm at South Island sale

The 9200 bales on offer at the South Island sale this week saw an 89% clearance with a generally firm to slightly dearer market, NZ Wool Services International Ltd's general manager, John Dawson says.

Published in General News
Friday, 09 November 2012 09:25

Synlait takes South Island award

Canterbury-based dairy enterprise Synlait Farms clinched the Lincoln University Foundation's South Island Farmer of the Year competition for 2012 last night (Thursday, November 8).

Published in General News
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