Helping grow the country

We’re turning pink from May 19–23 to celebrate Pink Week and shine a spotlight on IHC’s Calf & Rural Scheme. Now in its 43rd year, the scheme helps raise vital funds to support people with disabilities and their whānau in rural New Zealand. Your donations make a big impact—supporting initiatives...

Calves are going for big bucks in Marlborough, and it looks like bull prices will follow suit, according to Peter Barnes, PGG Wrightson’s Area Livestock Manager for the region. On Wednesday, Barnes was at the Blenheim Saleyards, at the High Country Calf Sale. He said it was the final calf sale for...

Good weather and healthy schedules leading to firm demand at weaner calf fairs and store lamb sales. With markets responding to positive climatic and market conditions, whether in the paddock or the saleyard, there is optimism about. Indifferent North Island weather has resulted in varying moisture...

Keen market expected in May and June, while purchasers with a smart genetics programme are set to maximise benefit at the sales. This year’s two-year-old bull sale season commences in mid-May and will run for a six-week period. After a profitable season of weaner sales, featuring record prices...

Multi-generational dispersal sales attract nationwide attention, indicating dairy sector’s current buoyancy. A couple of April dispersal sales of elite multi-generational dairy herds indicate the current strength of the market in the sector, and continued positivity among farmers, who are...

Winner of the supreme Southland Environment Award, an intensively managed 164-hectare deer farm, has benefited from progressive improvement over the past 20 years. A Lochiel deer farm, adhering to an intensive though highly productive system, has won the supreme Southland Environment Award and will...