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…


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…


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…


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…


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…


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…


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…


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…


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…


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…