Nethertown Angus and Foulden Hill Genetics bull sale

Six scholarships, worth a total of $30,000, have gone to university students studying agriculture and science.

Steve and Dave Cornes get a new bridge after Cyclone Gabrielle washed away the original stock bridge at Kautuku.

Steve and Dave Cornes have had a bridge rebuilt on their Hastings farm after Cyclone Gabrielle.

Cyclones Hale and Gabrielle ravaged the region at the start of the year.

Winners from the 2023 South Island and New Zealand Sheep Dog Trial Championships, hosted by the Warepa Collie Club.

Winners from the 2023 South Island and New Zealand Sheep Dog Trial Championships, hosted by the Warepa Collie Club.

There was a full clearance of the more than 17,000 sheep on offer at the annual Maniototo Last Muster Lamb Sale at Waipiata Saleyards last week. Photos / ODT / Shawn McAvinue

A crew of six has been confirmed for this year’s Golden Shears World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships.

Organisers estimated at least 44,000 people attended this year's Wānaka A and P Show. Photos/ ODT / Stephen Jaquiery

Jeremy Murphy is assessing the damage to his Tologa Bay property after ex-tropical Cyclone Hale.

Neil Frendrup, of Franz Dairies, said the Waiho River had moved again, after over 1400mm of rain during a storm. Photos / Brendon McMahon / LDR

Darfield High School's senior ag students took part in a mufti day with a difference this week. Photos / Supplied

Kiwifruit orchard foreman Dave Trafford showcases damage caused by an early October frost.

Canterbury farmers Jane and Mark Schwass are making felted wool exercise mats from their crossbred wool clip.

More than 100 people attended a joint sale of bulls from Middlemarch studs Nethertown Angus and Foulden Hill Genetics in Middlemarch last week. ODT

DJ Andrew & Co held its 10th annual lamb sale on its block between Kyeburn and Kokonga on State Highway 87.

Jody James and his team are hard at work on his Wairarapa dairy farm. Photos / Sally Round - RNZ Country Life

A coordinated national research project aims to tackle six of New Zealand's most invasive weeds through biocontrol. Photos / Supplied

ODT: The South Island and New Zealand championship sheep dog trials were hosted by the Greenvale club, near Waikaka, last week. Otago Daily Times photographer Peter McIntosh was there.

"The Best Dressed Mailbox Competition" makes this a rural mail run with a difference!

Opunake farmer Andy Whitehead's favourite breed of cattle is the Lakenvelder. - RNZ

Fire has destroyed 90 per cent of Duncan Ibbott's family farm 'Wave Hill' in Grafton NSW. Photos / Facebook

Steve Matthews has his own small business foraging and selling seaweed on Wairarapa coast. Photo: RNZ/Sally Round

Kate White, Lesley Pollock and Kacey Johnson are among the youngest team of women shepherds in the country. RNZ