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Six scholarships on offer

Applications are open for six on farm science scholarships offered by the Ministry for Primary Industries. The scholarships, worth a total of $30,000, are on offer for the 2026 academic year to tertiary students enrolled…

Just go for it…

The supreme winner of the Waikato Farm Environment Awards, Tor Pedersen, is urging others to enter next year’s awards. “Just go for it,” said Pedersen, of Broomore Farm near Raglan. His family has run a…

Being part of the change

Jayden Corbett was motivated after hearing and reading about whole-farm conversions to carbon forestry. “It didn’t sit right with me,” he said. “I’m a young guy starting out a career in sheep and beef and…

Feds want reinforcements

Federated Farmers is urging the Environmental Protection Authority to fast track the assessment of new treatments to fight New Zealand’s biggest agricultural pest. Native scarab beetle costelytra giveni, commonly known as native grass grub, costs…

Masters riders defy age

The term Mamil – Middle-Aged Man in Lycra – was coined by marketing gurus 15 years ago. Over the weekend, the Grassroots Cambridge Velodrome was full of them – and their female counterparts – at…

Sunday feast

Cambridge Football Club served up a feast of football on Sunday as six matches stacked the schedule. The action kicked off at John Kerkhof Park at 10am, as the club’s U14 Talent Development Programme team…

Knutson rewarded

Founding member of the Waipā Holstein Friesian Club, Brian Knutson, is tickled pink with the honorary life membership award bestowed on him at the club’s recent 50th jubilee celebrations. The retired farmer, who became the…

Gravity at Work

I am undertaking the brutal adjustment of coming from the oppressive, dusty heatwaves in Spain to mid-winter New Zealand – going from long, sunny days on the islands to frosty mornings. Several weeks ago now,…

Paewira cost doubled: claim

The doubling of resource consent application costs led to the suspension of Global Contracting Solutions resource consent application to build a waste to energy plant in Te Awamutu, the applicant says. Paeriwa waste-to-energy plant project…

New principal strikes it lucky

Halfway through her first year as St Peter’s Catholic School principal, Nicole Higby is reflecting on how lucky she – and St Peter’s – really is. Results in the 2025 school board elections come out…

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