Business
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.
Lamb hopeful $7.60 by June
Lamb at $6.60/kg carcaseweight (CW) felt like such a time in the doldrums, given the super summer prices of 2022.
Picking up the pieces
Less bureaucracy, better co-ordination and easily accessible information systems are farmers’ top wishes as they clear up after Cyclone Gabrielle.
Pothole downgrades prediction
Based on Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s October prediction, farmers expected 2022/23 to be a reasonable year but lamb hit a pothole and mutton prices choked.