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Error rate climbs with age
Andrew Steven has made the most of an unusually wet summer in South Canterbury.
Dear Aunty Thistledown,
After a tough drought, then flood, then possibly drought again I have inadvertently taken up mono-cropping. I have the thickest stand of pure organic thistles you have ever seen.
Time to fight gravity
The big four zero beckons for Charlotte Rietveld as she contemplates where the years have flown.
He Waka and the stages of grief
After digging a tractor out of the mud, Richard Reynolds goes digging into the He Waka Eke Noa proposals.
Hemp keeps the glass ovderflowing
Blair Drysdale spills a little milk but makes sure it’s glass half-full.
Lean on a gate, talk to a mate
The season flicks from mid-summer to mid-winter day after day for vet Amy Hoogenboom.
When is a subsidy an incentive?
England’s restrictions on Covid are now lifted and life is pretty much back to normal for Robert Hodgkins.
Give young ewes a chance
With a strong red meat market the two-tooths are getting extra rations to see if they can produce the goods, Dani Darke writes.
Ah, the scent of summer rain
Technology’s great when it works as the sales people claim, Mark Guscott reckons.
People or trees for neighbours?
From manicured sheep farm, through a dairy conversion and to the prospect of another carbon plantation, Paul Burt gives a brief history lesson.