Malcolm Gayfer

Fonterra Co-operative Group today increased its 2016/17 forecast Farmgate Milk Price by 15 cents to $6.15 per kgMS. Chairman John Wilson said the increase reflects the strong fundamentals supporting global dairy markets. “World dairy prices have risen in recent months and as we near the end of the s

New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English launches world-first premium lamb in Hong Kong A new kind of lamb set to spark a renaissance in the global appetite for premium meat has been launched by New Zealand Prime Minister Bill English at a reception in Hong Kong. Te Mana Lamb, the culmination of a de

Budget 2017 is investing $59.2 million over four years to ensure all road ambulance call outs are double crewed, says Invercargill MP Sarah Dowie. “This is great news for New Zealand, and especially great news for Southland. Double crewing all road ambulance call outs will help ensure patients are p

A young man from Central Otago is in hospital following an on farm accident yesterday. Senior Constable Darren Cox from Omakau Police says emergency services were called to a farm near Omakau after the local man became trapped in a hay bailer. Darren Cox says he was cut free by Fire staff and flown

We all know that Southland covers a vast land area and the weather can be at best unpredictable. So here’s a good story about how farmers can get precise weather info for their farming operations. Any Southland farmers signing up to get one of these weather gizmo’s ? Fonterra farmers will come toget

Katrina Thomas from western Southland has won the Dairy Women’s Network’s Dairy Community Leadership Award. The award was presented at the Dairy Women’s Network’s annual conference held in Queenstown. Awarded to an unsung heroes of rural communities it recognises the voluntary role dairy farming wom

Building activity in Invercargill  appears to be tapering off as winter sets in ICC building consent stats for April show a decrease in most categories compared to the same time last year. One of the sharpest drops is consents issued for New Commercial Industrial Buildings and Alterations. There wer

What a ghastly way to wind up April. A tragedy beyond comprehension, the shooting that saw a mother dead and at least three families decimated. What can we say? We can say that some of the reportage was dreadful. And we at whatsoninvers let ourselves down on the night of with our request for pics […