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Firefighters from Orepuki, Otautau and Tuatapere have been at a western Southland fire for more than nine hours on Tuesday.Supplied / The-Southland-Times It was important to note the positioning ...
An Orepuki house was all but destroyed in a fire at the Western Southland township yesterday. Orepuki senior firefighter Neville Ferguson said the fire started at the unoccupied weatherboard house ...
Grant Lightfoot, the Orepuki deer farmer who invented a non-polluting baleage wrap that animals can eat, has just received his first shipment of plant fibre bale netting from India. Baleage is a ...
A Orepuki deer farmer, who invented a non-polluting, edible bale netting, says he has been "overwhelmed" by the response to his product. Southland farmer Grant Lightfoot is the man behind Kiwi ...
It does not necessarily reflect the view of The Herald. A farmer from Orepuki in Southland, New Zealand is taking the agricultural world by storm with his ground-breaking invention - an edible bale ...