"I know he's a good ram. Otherwise I wouldn't have brought him home from Gore."

Youngest rider entered wins top prize at Levin showjumping competition

Baigent wins his fifth open class title at Golden Bay A and P Show at Takaka on Saturday.

Woodchopping is a great individual sport according to Axeman Peter Greig.

Thousands of revellers made the most of the action at the Winton Racecourse on Saturday.

Phil Wedd succeeds at the ANZ Northland Shearing Competition on Saturday.

Big weekend wins for Smith at the Horowhenua Shears and Wairoa Shears.

Henare wins Southland Shears' national crossbred lambs woolhandling title on Saturday.

Smiths comes out on top at what turned out to be a battle of champions at Wairoa Shears.

Frankton Thunder will return to Hamilton in March.

Waikato farmer Lee Cheyne says shearing the competitions in the North is "a social event."

But where are all the entries for some of the categories?

Event to raise money for Leukaemia and Blood Cancer New Zealand.

SAFE claim they were bullied by crowds at the Mid Northern rodeo.

The heat at the Avocado Food and Wine Festival left shade in hot demand on Saturday.

Smashed Avo was the winner on the day for a Katikati cafe.

The Harvey Fly fishing trip has been going every year for 50 years.

Organisers say Safe won't find anything to be upset about even if it does decide to come.

Sheepdog trials have been held in Pleasant Point to benefit Alzheimers South Canterbury.

Comment: Rodeo. The word alone is enough to ignite a firestorm of discussion and debate.

Two Southland School girls have been selected to go to the US.

Bad weather won't stop the Black and Coloured Sheep Breeders' Association national sale.

A Temuka farmer has been awarded an Australasian Syngenta Growth Award.

Families of two and three generations were among the 55 riders who set out on Sunday.

A South Canterbury dairy farmer wants another shot at the FMG young Farmer title.

No cattle will be on display at the Broadwood A&P Show.

Nisbet will mark 50 years of trialling when the domestic circuit kicks off next month.

Rodeo bosses slam animal welfare groups' claims of horse death cover-up.

Cherry Chaos went off without a hitch in Roxburgh, despite the weather.

Fagan takes out two of New Zealand's biggest speed shear prizes at the weekend.