Waikato

When you talk to Matamata dairy farmers Rod and Sandra McKinnon about environmental sustainability it’s easy to understand why the couple won the 2017/18 Waikato Ballance Farm Environment Awards.

For over half a century Te Rapa has been a place of work, a producer of world class dairy, a supportive community and, for some, it has even been home.

Anyone with kids knows that parenting can be hard, and if you’ve never been shown ways to deal with kids who are playing up then how do you learn? That’s a problem Senior Constable Jackie Drayson was keen to solve.

How one high school is helping give their region’s past a new future.

Lisa and Hamish Lile have hosted primary school children on their Otorohanga farm eight times over the last few years through DairyNZ’s Find a Farmer programme.

The Raglan surf lifesaving club is set to keep even more people safe this summer thanks to a grant from the Fonterra Grass Roots Fund.