Livestock

A former World War I soldier’s ballot block is now a self-sufficient off-grid farm for a Tasman family. Story and photos by Annabelle Latz.

Landcorp chief executive Mark Leslie believes a benefit of more than $40 million a year could be delivered by 2040 to the sheep industry through two of its subsidiary Focus Genetics’ research programmes. By Glenys Christian.

Beef+Lamb New Zealand has announced the finalists for its 2023 awards.

Long-time sheep pregnancy scanner Daniel Wheeler has clients across the world, James Hoban writes.

The traditional drench families that have served fine wool farmers well are losing efficacy, but drench-resistant internal parasites can still be fought, writes Dave Robertson.

Like other costs, those for animal health have soared, vet Trevor Cook writes.

Driving up lamb growth rates on mum has the potential to overcome the worm challenge, Ginny Dodunski writes.

Identifying exact ewe wastage percentages and their cause remains difficult, vet Rachael Fouhy writes.

For too long, opportunities to breed out the cost have largely been ignored in ram selection, Mark Ferguson writes.

A programme is underway to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions from this country’s sheep flock by encouraging the measurement and uptake of low methane genetics.