Country-Wide October/November 2023

Good quality and stronger prices have marked recent wool sales, Tony Leggett reports.

When Hayden and Anastasia Tristram met as medics in the army, they never imagined themselves farming, but the pull of returning to Hayden’s family farm at Wanstead eventually won out. Four years in, they are developing products to increase the value of their strong wool. By Rebecca Greaves.

He’s only 22 years old, but Canterbury farmer Luke Hurley has a wise head and a thirst for knowledge. His efforts are paying off with a big win at a recent winter feed competition. Story and photos by Annabelle Latz.

It is somewhat a homecoming for me to don the Editor’s hat for Country-Wide.

Passing the baton to the next generation.

Changing the way we farm because someone does not like what we are doing can be hard to swallow, writes vet Trevor Cook.

Sheep and beef farm profitability for the coming season is forecast to be at an eight-year low according to Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s Economic Service’s New Season Outlook. By Sandra Taylor.

A recent trade mission visited India, now the world’s most-populous country, and a booming economy. By Glenys Christian.

Feeling irritable or overwhelmed? Clinical psychologist Sarah Donaldson offers suggestions of ways to cope.

A former World War I soldier’s ballot block is now a self-sufficient off-grid farm for a Tasman family. Story and photos by Annabelle Latz.