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Adapting on the land

White Star Station has been in the Evans family for 155 years. Now the seventh generation is living on the Colville farm. Today you'll find hereford cattle, sheep, tourist accommodation, a horse-trekking venture and a honey business on the farm but, over the years, dairy cows, goats, deer and pigs have been farmed there. The farm's also had its own timber mill and goldmine.

Faith in Milking

Ruwan Wijayasena (above) and his wife Niranjal Gamlath have taken out the 2019 Canterbury/North Otago Share Farmer of the Year title. Ruwan, who is from Sri Lanka, contract milks 1800 cows at Hororata and employs 8 full-time staff. The couple are devout Buddhists and have decided it's better not to own cows or make decisions about culling them. Instead they are expanding their contract milking business rather than taking the traditional road to farm ownership.

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From the Archives ....

Ngati Porou want honey not money, November 2016

Large manuka-based honey companies make a lot of money from the manuka-covered hills of the East Coast. While the beehive rental money coming from these businesses is sizeable, a group of local Ngati Porou want to take control of the industry themselves.