Business
Making of a great manager
Opportunities await for multi-skilled farm managers with the combination of practical farming experience and necessary analytical skills. Tony Leggett reports.
Proposal not cautious enough
The Government has released its proposals for agricultural emissions charges as part of climate change mitigations. Joanna Grigg reports on the proposals and their conflicts with the industry’s He Waka Eke Noa suggestions.
Wool’s cool and it bounces
A pair of mobile wool sheds are on a tour of New Zealand schools teaching students about the story of wool. Annabelle Latz reports.
Seeking grazing personalities
Is it possible to genetically select deer according to their grazing personality?
A sea-change thanks to velvet
A son’s rugby injury and its treatment with deer velvet products convinced Barry Cuttance to give up life as a sea-farer. Lynda Gray reports.
A deer milestone
Set up in the very early days of New Zealand deer farming, the people of Invermay have celebrated half a century of scientific research for the industry. By Lynda Gray.
Where to next for deer?
The report card is out on a seven-year strategy for the deer industry costing $15 million, Lynda Gray looks at the results.
Lessons learned for best practice
Setting up an independent business, vets Ben Allott and his wife Samantha applied many of the lessons they had learned along the way.
The golden era? Not quite
Compared to the mid-1980s, sheep farming has reached its golden era. But new and constant changes present challenges, Graham Butcher writes.
The cost of producing a lamb
Farm consultant Kerry Dwyer works the numbers to find the cost of producing a lamb and that farmers are running a high input cost system.