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Farmers Weekly found rural increases of up to 57% on the council's online dashboard, while most town properties showed no rise, as Gore weighs shifting more of the rates burden onto farms.
Environment Southland scientists say El Niño is likely to keep the region wet and windy through to January, with river levels near normal on average but bursts of heavy rain still able to cause flooding.
Agriculture and horticultural science will stay a standalone Year 11 subject after Education Minister Erica Stanford reversed a Ministry of Education plan to fold it into general science, a decision Southland secondary principals have welcomed.
A Federated Farmers survey of nearly 650 farmers since the 3G switch-off finds two in three cannot rely on reaching 111 from most of their farm, with a Southland respondent among the frustrated.
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A calm sheep handling course set up after a PETA exposé will be extended to about 400 more shearers, funded by the wool industry, days after a North Otago shearer was sentenced for abusing sheep.
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Fonterra has raised its farmgate milk price midpoint from $9.50 to $9.75 a kilogram of milksolids and lifted the November advance payment to $7.55, citing stronger powder demand.
