Lambs head out the farm gates
Round of sales kicks off at Tautane Station, back in on-farm auctions after 20 years.
Fast talkers sway judges at Young Auctioneers
Biggest field to date as promising sales professionals vie for titles.
Headwinds toughen outlook for lamb
Plenty of options for buyers, but signals beyond the farmgate have them feeling cautious.
North Island mustering support for on-farm sales
On-farm trend spreading from south, with six big sales planned before Christmas.
Eastern farmers offload to meet El Niño
Weather system already blowing through the saleyards as farmers plan for a long dry summer.
Tairāwhiti digs deep for Cancer Society stock drive
With a quarter-century under its belt, charity drive auctions off more than 300 donated sheep.
Lambing early, lambing often
Ewe numbers are losing out to encroaching forestry, but the harassed-looking mothers are making up the difference in more multiples after being mated in the early first cycle.
Nightmare journey to get stock to sale
Last year’s flurry of farm sales to foresters has reached its next phase: getting the stock off the farms – and it hasn’t been pretty.
Low lamb volume misleading in market lull
Don’t be fooled by the tumbleweeds blowing through Temuka – there are lambs out there, even if some of them are a storm-tossed three-day ocean voyage away.
Blanket of mud spreads around North Island
The never-ending rain is floating heavy stock off the farms and into the saleyards, where returns are softer but still respectable.