Winning genes

Te Akau sheep and beef farmers Alastair and Ann Reeves were the Supreme Winners in this year’s Waikato Ballance Farm Environment Awards. Beef + Lamb New…


Bringing the Tech to Merino for 35 years

If you follow good genetic principles, you make good progress. Words Dr Mark Ferguson.


The role of a parasite management plan

If you discover drench resistance on your farm, a parasite management plan, specific to your farm, can be an important piece of the puzzle to ensure you have…


Drench passport on the way?

As the drench resistance train continues at speed through the New Zealand sheep industry it is leaving many lamb purchasers asking ‘why can’t drench resistance…


What’s the Beef?

Over 1.8 million non-replacement calves are produced annually and processed at 4-7 days old in New Zealand. Matt Iremonger’s 2023 Nuffield report looks at the…


In search of the holy grail

Tools available to farmers to help reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions are thin on the ground currently, but AgriZeroNZ is doubling down on its efforts to deliver…


Alliance Group takes blowtorch to costs to save co-op

Space has been shaved off at Alliance Group’s head office in Christchurch to save money spent on rent.


Survival of the Fittest

Legacy structures are proving to be a major headache for the meat processing sector and the farmers supplying it with livestock. Words Tony Leggett.


Change-Makers

Since returning home to his family’s farming operation on Banks Peninsula eight years ago, George Masefield along with his wife Emma, have made some…


Farming with a view

High above Otago Peninsula, the extinct volcano Hereweka Harbour Cone looks down on the farming operation of Brendon and Paula Cross, and where the possums…