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A cap of cloud on Granite Peak was once all  that was needed to forecast imminent rain, Gaye Coates writes.

After three years of surgery and medication Chris Biddles decided to have his leg amputated.

The crops enjoyed some early summer rain, but the question of water is exercising many, Roger Barton writes from South Wairarapa.

Put too many animals together for too long under tight conditions and the stresses soon begin to surface. It’s the same with people, Nick Loughnan writes.

The fun of tractor driving has lost its attraction for Suzie Corboy on her Owaka farm.

Pastures are short but very high quality with clover coming away – just how the lambs like it, writes Richard Gavigan.

We’re not all in the canoe together, reckons Mark Chamberlain.

Carbon forests pose a threat to the long-established Kiwi culture of hill country pastoral farming, writes Paul Burt.

A couple have taken retirement to heart with a project to rid a farm of its pest population, writes Robert Carter.

I accidentally weighed our farmhand while we were weighing calves the other day. I wrote Sam up in the little yellow notebook as a joke