The meeting is at the Puketitiri Golf Club starting at 4pm on Tuesday, and OSPRI welcomes input from any community affected by control activities, and any groups that use the land for recreational hunting.
The drop-in events are opportunities for communities to discuss any effects of the pest control operations. Interested citizens are invited to speak with OSPRI staff about TB management in the area, aerial possum control, ground control, and livestock testing for TB .
OSPRI says there will be discussions on how the programme might affect the community, and an explanation of the benefits that TB control brings while protecting and enhancing the region's agricultural businesses.
People's choice
The public will get a chance to vote for a winner in the New Zealand Young Farmer of the Year awards which will be presented in Timaru on July 9 after a three-day faceoff among the seven regional winners.
It comes in the form of a People's Choice vote which opened last week.
The finalists include former Taratahi farm business and training general manager Tony Dowman, who won the East Coast final in Dannevirke in March. Representing an area including Hawke's Bay and Wairarapa, he is now dairy business manager for Landcorp on their Moutoa complex at Foxton.
Pressing business
Canterbury shearer Allan Oldfield has some pressing business on his mind after scoring four victories across the shearing sports in the UK and Ireland, within three weeks of starting his big OE without a win to his name in New Zealand.
The 25 year old has won two blade shearing events and a machine shearing final, and now a novice woolhandling event, leaving those in the sport wondering if anyone has ever won events in all three of the disciplines. Now he jokes he might return to New Zealand early next year and have a go at the woolpressing at the Golden Shears.
In order, he won the Leinster Shears bladeshearing and Royal Ulster bladeshearing finals, the Connacht junior machine shearing final, and the novice woolhandling event at the Devon County Show in England.
Cinderella Farmer
A Welsh farmers' daughter dubbed 'Cinderella' because of the way she was treated by her parents and two sisters, has effectively lost more than half of the celebrated glass slipper - the one she got when awarded almost $2.8 million compensation for years of toil on the family farm.
Eirian Davies, 47, from Carmarthenshire, looked after the cows on Henllan Farm in Whitland, having to "stay home with a muck fork" while her two sisters were out having fun at the local Young Farmers' Club.
Parents Tegwyn and Mary had told her she would inherit most of the farm as recompense, but about-turned and put the farm in the trust of all three sisters equally.
It was a decision Ms Davies successfully challenged in the High Court in Cardiff last year - with an award of a £1.3 million share.
But the parents' claim that it was too much has now been upheld by a Court of Appeal, which has slashed the entitlement to £500,000.
