Business
Weaner calf market prices strong
Despite rising costs and the effects of Cyclone Gabrielle, weaner calf sales have experienced a boom market, AgriHQ senior analyst Reece Brick reports.
It’s not just the sale price
Kerry Dwyer reviews cattle trading margins year upon year, and says profitable beef production is based on getting the optimum growth rate relative to your cost structure.
Opportunities from disaster
Peter Andrew is no stranger to cyclones but says Gabrielle showed the progress we’ve made in some areas and has highlighted ways to do things better.
Right stock + feed = profit
Gore-based farm consultant Graham Butcher has spent more than a decade looking at c/kg DM across sheep, herd, calf finishing, bull and dairy policies and finds bull beef tops the list.
The big cleanup
There’s years of clean up and rebuilding waiting for the victims of Gabrielle. Photographer Louise Savage lives in the thick of the flooded Gisborne region and post-flood went to visit some of the locals dealing with the cyclone’s aftermath.
Access and fencing top priorities
An 80-year-old English poplar fell onto stockyards on the Northland farm of former agriculture minister Sir Lockwood Smith during Cyclone Gabrielle, costing him $20,000 to reinstate.
By Glenys Christian
The power of pencil and paper
In the third part of our large-scale farm manager series, Paddy Boyd has made a career out of managing the Mackenzie Basin’s Haldon Station and its people.
By Terry Brosnahan.
Photos by Chris Sullivan.
Rethink the methodology
The methodology for calculating inflation and interest rates: is it time for a rethink in volatile times?
By Victoria Rutherford.