November 5, 2025
SHEEP Country Episode 5 – WormFEC Gold: Smarter Breeding
WormFec Gold is a national breeder group working to combat drench resistance by selecting sheep with genetics for lower faecal egg counts, cleaner back ends…
October 31, 2025
Episode 86 – High Performance Doesn’t Mean Burnout
Witnessing the stress of sheep farming in Southland as a child led Steve Clarke to a career as a helicopter pilot before returning home to the dairy farm. He…
October 29, 2025
SHEEP Country Episode 4 – Headwaters: Driving lamb innovation
Headwaters is a producer group that supplies premium New Zealand lamb through their own brand Lumina Lamb. The 95 farmers in joint venture with Alliance Group…
October 24, 2025
Episode 85 – Springboard your irrigation season
How can farmers get the most from irrigation without wasting water or damaging equipment? IrrigationNZ Principal Technical Advisor Stephen McNally explains how…
October 22, 2025
SHEEP Country Episode 3 – Shedding sheep, shared progress
A shared drive to improve genetics is at the heart of the Shedding Sheep Improvement Group, where breeders nationwide are working together to lift performance…
October 17, 2025
Episode 84 – Integrating Forestry
How can sheep and beef farmers see forestry as more than a binary choice between full plantation and traditional farming? New Zealand Institute of Forestry…
October 15, 2025
SHEEP Country Episode 2 – Romani Farms: Breeding for resilience
A focus on dual-purpose genetics is at the heart of Romani Farms, where Ross and Ruth Richards run 700 hectares in the King Country. In this episode, Jo Scott…
October 10, 2025
Episode 83 – Rethinking animal welfare
As new wearable technologies for animals have surged in popularity, specific advice on the use of them within the dairy sector is to be included in an imminent…
October 9, 2025
The Day of reckoning
No one can deny the numbers of a declining national lamb crop with the over-capacity of processing plants set to collide as the day of reckoning looms closer…
October 8, 2025
SHEEP Country Episode 1 – Waitohi Peaks: Shedding composites advantage
Focusing on shedding composites has reshaped farming at Waitohi Peaks, where Andrew, Sara, Digby and Guy Heard run stud and commercial flocks on North…

