Beef and Sheep

Responses to Informing New Zealand Beef survey help shape the future of the programme.

Farming smarter is the focus of February event.

Extension of loyalty programme had threatened to delay cash to farmers.

Emma Blom visits the birthplace of the celebrated breed in the Netherlands.

Plenty of options for buyers, but signals beyond the farmgate have them feeling cautious.

Good rains swell tallies to 79 million head, keeping international prices low.

Land uses changes are threatening the national livestock tally and the viability of rural communities, Allan Barber says.

Retiring director says courage will be needed to tackle future dairy industry challenges.

Export prices ease after a brief and modest recovery in August and September.

Vigorous, hardy and clever: no wonder that in at least one respect they’re known as the Rolls-Royce of sheep breeds.

Total of eight medals across nine cuts at event in the Netherlands.

It’s not looking like a bumper start to the season for lamb or mutton, with export prices and competition between processors softer than usual for this time of the year.

Positive response from breeders for across-breed Beef Progeny Test.

In August, Australia shipped its largest ever monthly volume of sheepmeat, having made no secret of the fact that it is chasing after New Zealand for the top export slot.

The days of farmers ‘simply assuming a triple drench will work’ are gone.

Cheap meat floods wholesale markets as FTA kicks in.

What started as a hobby soon turned into a profitable venture for Waipukurau farmers.

At the age of 14, North Canterbury’s Pieta Sidey has her own sheep stud.

Top end of SFF forecast implies a lift in prices from current levels, says analyst.

BLNZ attributes decline in part to land-use changes.

Almost 40 recommendations for policies across trade, climate change, carbon farming, water and more.

Farmgate forecast substantially down on last year’s average.

A Shorthorn cattle breeder has come a long way from her first sale at sixteen.

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.

Long-term trend emerges of lower tonnage of sheepmeat exports and an increase in beef exports.

Some income stability ‘is good news in a year like this’.

Fonterra lowered its forecast farmgate milk price twice in August, as markets struggle with post-covid recovery and weaker economic activity.

Product has a vital role in global supply of nutrients, conference told.

Herd rebuilding in the US was widely expected to tighten supply this year. Instead slaughter rates have approached record levels.

Plenty of new projects in their 20 years of farming are paying off massively for Masterton sheep and beef farmers Matt and Lynley Wyeth.

BLNZ delegation returns from North America trip with new sense of urgency.

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.

In honour of Steve Wyn-Harris retiring his weekly From the Ridge column after decades wielding the pen, Farmers Weekly dips into the archives for another taste of ag New Zealand’s favourite scribe.

As Brazil and Australia ship millions of tonnes of beef across the world, the ripple effects are being felt at the farmgate in NZ.

Taste Pure Nature making waves for NZ beef and lamb, it says.

July return dips below June for first time in 20 years.