Country-Wide Beef May 2023
A Red Devon affair
Former police detective Lee Askew now runs a successful breeding and finishing farm in Gisborne’s Waimata Valley, and it all started with a sentimental attachment to Red Devon cows. Words and photos by Louise Savage.
Progress at Ben Annand
A couple strive to maintain healthy and profitable stock, increase production, diversify where they can, and battle unwelcome pigs and deer. By Jo Cuttance.
TB: Moving closer to the finish line
Over the past decade, the disease management agency OSPRI has been edging closer to eliminating bovine tuberculosis (TB) from New Zealand.
Cruizy Calves hit the spot
Investing in top genetics without compromising constitution has always been a priority for the McFadzean family, who farm 18,000 sheep, 1500 cows and 600 deer across four properties in Wairarapa.
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.
