by Gianina Schwanecke | 21 Oct, 2019 | Rural
Spring has sprung at Ata Rangi vineyard in Martinborough. PHOTO/PETE MONK Following severe frosts which damaged crops last year, GIANINA SCHWANECKE talks to winegrowers around the region about their frost fighting efforts this spring. Te Hera Estate – Martinborough Te...
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by Gianina Schwanecke | 21 Oct, 2019 | Rural
John Tulloch, Alastair Scott, and Graeme Tulloch mark 50 years of Krone farm machinery at Tulloch Farm Machine’s open day. PHOTO/GIANINA SCHWANECKE GIANINA SCHWANECKE It’s been a big year at Tulloch Farm Machines, says managing director and third-generation...
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by Gianina Schwanecke | 7 Oct, 2019 | Rural
Competitor’s at last year’s match in Gladstone. PHOTO/JADE CVETKOV GIANINA SCHWANECKE For New Zealand farmers ploughing to improve soil quality for greater harvests was a vital part of farm life. But in Gladstone last weekend, it was all about precision...
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by Gianina Schwanecke | 26 Sep, 2019 | Rural
Prime Minister’s Scholarship winners, Phoebe Topp, Tom Mckay and Lucy Hewitt. PHOTO/SUPPLIED Four former Wairarapa students now studying at Lincoln University are heading overseas after each being awarded the Prime Minister’s Scholarship last week. Sixty-five...
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by Gianina Schwanecke | 12 Sep, 2019 | Rural
The next generation of Sharpes [from left]: Sam, William, Lucy, Olivia and Sara Orsborn. PHOTO/SUPPLIED GIANINA SCHWANECKE It might be celebrating 120 years of operation, but Sharpes Stock Feeds is still moving with the times. The business was founded in 1899 by John...
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by Gianina Schwanecke | 6 Sep, 2019 | Rural
Castlepoint Station mate Wagyu bulls with Angus heifers to create terminal sires which they sell on to First Light. PHOTO/SUPPLIED GIANINA SCHWANECKE As a seventh-generation farming family, the Crofoots are always looking for ways to add value to their farming...
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by Christine Dornan | 30 Aug, 2019 | Rural
Mauriceville farmers Alan Stuart, right, and Jim Weston celebrate the completion of the new bridge with the residents of Baregota in Ethiopia. PHOTOS/SUPPLIED Mauriceville farmer Alan Stuart has fulfilled a promise made two years ago, to build a bridge in the...
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by Gianina Schwanecke | 28 Aug, 2019 | Rural
A swarm of aphids on a tree branch at a Longbush property in 2016. PHOTO/FILE GIANINA SCHWANECKE In the summer of 2016 a plague of swarming black covered willow trees across the Wairarapa, coating everything in a sweet sticky form of honey dew. From a distance it...
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