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Time for a Christmas break

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

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Woolshed and a gym

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

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He waka – what the?

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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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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. 

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A thankless task in the yards

Fresh from sorting things out at the drafting gate, Jane Smith lets off a little steam.

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In Top Gear with an unlikely champion

Unlike new farmer Jeremy Clarkson, everything is going just fine for Andrew Steven.

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