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Glens of Tekoa Station’s Beau McRae tells a large crowd about the early days of farming in the Amuri district at a high country field day by Federated Farmers. PHOTO: TIM CRONSHAW A convoy of high country farmers was treated to a history of merino farming at a North Canterbury field day by Federated Farmers.

Retired Lowry Hills farmer Doug Archbold has survived many medical setbacks and packed a lifetime of experience in his eight decades. He tells all in his self-published memoir: More Than Just a Farmer .PHOTO: TIM CRONSHAW A retired Lowry Hills farmer has just signed off as an author after a successful book run raising money for charities dear to his heart, writes Tim Cronshaw.

Hari Hari farmer and backyard engineer Jock Nolan, left, and Plucks Engineering managing director Neil Pluck have joined together to manufacture and sell the Hose Runner, a device to shift stockwater hoses. PHOTOS: TIM CRONSHAW A West Coast farmer can thank his children for a lightbulb moment to take the back-breaking work out of shifting stockwater hoses.

Repost co-founder Greg Coppell repurposes old vineyard posts to turn them into good-as-new farming posts, saving thousands of tonnes of timber from landfill. He and wife Dansy won the Agri-Innovations Awards at the South Island Agricultural Field Days at Canterbury’s Kirwee. PHOTO: TIM CRONSHAW Marlborough’s Repost is shaving costly time turning old treated vineyard posts into good-as-new farming posts with their own machinery.

PHOTO: TIM CRONSHAW Mid Canterbury's John and Jane Harrison are impressed with how cashmere goals are controlling thistles and improving pasture quality on their Temora Downs mixed farm.

Dr Scott Champion is replacing Dr Alison Stewart as chief executive of the industry body Foundation for Arable Research. Photo: FAR Former Beef + Lamb New Zealand chief executive Dr Scott Champion will take over the leadership of the Foundation for Arable Research (FAR).

Ashley Howard presented the inaugural Erin Howard Memorial Trophy to Taylor Thomas and her pony Windward Cassidy of Owaka at the Good Friday gymkhana. PHOTO: GEORGIE MCGREGOR The Strath Taieri Pony Club has paid heartfelt tribute to a beloved coach, mother and horsewoman with the introduction of the Erin Howard Memorial Trophy — an award that celebrates not only horsemanship in young people but also the caring spirit of a woman who gave so much to the equestrian community.

Harihari farmer and backyard engineer Jock Nolan, left, and Plucks Engineering managing director Neil Pluck have joined together to manufacture and sell the Hose Runner, a device to shift stockwater hoses. PHOTO: TIM CRONSHAW A West Coast farmer can thank his children for a lightbulb moment to take the back-breaking work out of shifting stockwater hoses.

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The elephant in the room as I tasted these wines was the likelihood of the United States imposing tariffs on all our agricultural products.

Photo: Simon Lambert I was overjoyed when I saw the buttercup pumpkins. 

Clockwise, from top, now in her mid-80s, Joan Bishop has made the difficult decision to retire from writing her food column; in action in the 1980s as a food demonstrator for Sunbeam Appliances; the "Crockpot Queen" in 2007; training air hostesses in the 1960s; a selection of her hugely popular cookbooks. Photos: Linda Robertson (main photo), Stephen Jaquiery (Crockpot Queen), supplied For nearly four decades Joan Bishop has shared her recipes with Otago Daily Times’ readers.

Photo: RNZ An independent review has found Pharmac's current approach is not fit for purpose and has called for an overhaul of both strategy and culture.

William Walmsley. Photo: Supplied / Wellington District Police Missing Wellington 12-year-old William Walmsley has been found and taken home to his parents.

The North Shore facility was destroyed in the blaze. Photo: RNZ Almost $200,000 has been raised for workers with disabilities who have been left without a place to work after their North Shore recycling plant burned to the ground last week.

The people who will decide the fate of alleged poisonous mushroom cook Erin Patterson have been chosen for her trial.

A rescue helicopter took Denis De Pass to hospital. Photo: Supplied A Canterbury farmer was injured after he was headbutted by one of his rams.

By Peter de Graaf of RNZ