Home Block
Time for a Christmas break
The fun of tractor driving has lost its attraction for Suzie Corboy on her Owaka farm.
Woolshed and a gym
Pastures are short but very high quality with clover coming away – just how the lambs like it, writes Richard Gavigan.
He waka – what the?
We’re not all in the canoe together, reckons Mark Chamberlain.
Threat to a Kiwi cultural treasure
Carbon forests pose a threat to the long-established Kiwi culture of hill country pastoral farming, writes Paul Burt.
Don’t climb trees for cats
A couple have taken retirement to heart with a project to rid a farm of its pest population, writes Robert Carter.
Dear Aunty Thistledown
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
Wet harvest, but little rain
High humidity mid-summer meant long waits for crops to dry enough for combines to work on David Walston’s Cambridgeshire farm.
Getting in shape
After a very good start in life for her weaners, Micha Johansen sheds a tear as a bunch go off to new homes.
A thankless task in the yards
Fresh from sorting things out at the drafting gate, Jane Smith lets off a little steam.
In Top Gear with an unlikely champion
Unlike new farmer Jeremy Clarkson, everything is going just fine for Andrew Steven.