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Dairy farmers in Otago and Southland have taken a hit from unseasonal high winds that have demolished haybarns and generally disrupted their farming.

The Southland winter-spring, with prolonged incessant rain, cold wind and low sunshine hours, have depressed grass growth well below normal.

A cold wet winter and the low payout is a disaster for Southland dairy farmers, says DairyNZ.

This season threw up a big challenge for dairy farmers in the low payout, but all hoped the weather might have been kind.

The Southland District Council is advising drivers in central Southland against unnecessary travel, due to widespread icy conditions.

Nine months since reports of cows collapsing on swede crops in Southland, the exact cause of the casualties is still uncertain.

A self-contained sheep and dairy farm has won the 2015 Southland Ballance Farm Environment Awards (BFEA) supreme winner award.

The winners of the 2015 Southland-Otago Sharemilker/Equity Farmer of the Year award say they strive to be the best.

Staff can get cows to milking within five minutes in Southland’s chilly winter rather than slog round in a wet swede paddock.

More calls are fielded by Federated Farmers Southland about tough immigration criteria for migrants than about any other issue, says the region’s president Russell MacPherson.