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Whanganui up against it down south
10 May, 2021 04:32 PM
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If last season is any guide, Steelform Whanganui could face stern opposition when it flies south for away Heartland rugby games against Mid and South Canterbury this year.
Both of the Hannan Shield unions, which drew 31-all in Timaru during the very restricted Covid-19 2020 representative programme, enjoyed unbeaten records.
In this year s Bunnings Warehouse-sponsored Heartland championship the Butcher Boys are off to Timaru for a second-round clash against South Canterbury on Saturday, August 28, and return to the South Island a month later to play Mid Canterbury at Ashburton on September 25.
Money still to be made in farming if the timing is right, despite the fickle summer weather
10 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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The memory of last year s drought lingers and is putting pressure on the store lamb price. Photo / File
The memory of last year s drought lingers and is putting pressure on the store lamb price. Photo / File
Iain Hyndman is a reporter for the Whanganui Chronicleiain.hyndman@whanganuichronicle.co.nzWhangaChron
There is still good money to be made in farming if the timing is right, especially when the fickle summer weather bites.
Independent Whanganui commentator, farmer, livestock company owner, rural real estate agent and Horizons regional councillor David Cotton said the year began with a bang, but warned the pressure on price would continue to head downward, with a large number of farmers still remembering last year s drought.