Suz Bremner
156 posts
Suz Bremner started with AgriHQ in 2009 as a weigh-crate operator at the Stortford Lodge sale yards. She quickly progressed to agri-market analyst and then took on the role as LivestockEye operations manager in 2010. Her focus is sale yard operations and activity and she has a team of 20 that collect data at various sale yards around the country to be used to create the suite of AgriHQ reports. The Across the Rails articles started in 2016, and she also collates the photos and reports for the Sale Yard Wrap pages. Suz farms with her husband Campbell in Hawke's Bay and has two children. Outside of work, she is busy with children's sport and activities, though finds time for eventing and waterskiing, which are both passions of hers. October 18, 2023
North Island mustering support for on-farm sales
On-farm trend spreading from south, with six big sales planned before Christmas.
September 25, 2023
Eastern farmers offload to meet El Niño
Weather system already blowing through the saleyards as farmers plan for a long dry summer.
August 31, 2023
Tairāwhiti digs deep for Cancer Society stock drive
With a quarter-century under its belt, charity drive auctions off more than 300 donated sheep.
August 30, 2023
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.
August 7, 2023
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.
July 31, 2023
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.
July 17, 2023
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.
July 3, 2023
When a Speckle Park is not a Speckle Park
Having a speckled coat is no guarantee that the cattlebeast is a fast-growing, well-marbled, sweet-tempered Speckle Park.
June 19, 2023
Stock class reductions cause for concern
Farm sales, policy changes and other trends are having a skewing effect at the saleyards, with, for example, increased demand for lambs coming when ewe numbers are continuing to fall.
June 1, 2023
Beef herd royalty goes under the hammer
Tree planting on land sold to forestry begins on the day cattle sale is held.