Livestock

A good beef herd is crucial for lifting pasture quality for sheep, reckons King Country farmer Alan Blake. Story and photos by Mike Bland.

Ensuring every stock class has two different income streams is one of the major strategies for success on Awakino Station. Story and photos by Victoria Rutherford.

Beef finishers have the opportunity to cash in on the dairy industry’s supply of bulls, writes Dwayne Cowin.

Lying roughly half-way between Napier and Taihape, Otupae Station has been home to Garry and Mary Mead for 40 years. Sandra Taylor speaks to Garry during his final weeks at the helm of this iconic sheep and beef farm.

By Trevor Cook

Zoonotic diseases, acquired from livestock among other sources, are a risk to women in pregnancy, writes vet Sara Sutherland.

Grazing hoggets off farm has benefits, reducing costs and risks, but there are negatives, Tom Ward writes.

Vet Trevor Cook takes a look ahead to see what changes to farming might do to his business.

A family succession plan has seen a young couple establish their own farming operation in North Canterbury. By Annabelle Latz.

Country-Wide asks ram breeders how their selling season has been.