Helping grow the country

Mark Cuttance, PGG Wrightson’s Dairy Sales Manager - South Island, came in from the cold for a yarn about the market today. Cuttance, who is based in Gore, told the Country’s Hamish McKay he felt like he’d been “living in a fridge” for the last 10 days. Luckily, he said, the outlook for feeder...

The season closed out with strong wool prices up on the same time last year by up to 24%, however the market continues to reflect global uncertainties affecting many of our export industries. While prices remain mixed, recent auctions have brought some encouraging signs, particularly for well...

Tucked away in Southland’s rolling green hills near Dipton, Nigel and Jayne Beer are quietly preserving a rare piece of New Zealand’s farming history, one fleece at a time. As possibly one of the last commercial-sized run holders of purebred Lincoln sheep in the South Island, and perhaps all of New...

Pictured: Summerhill Charitable Trust trustee Gabrielle Walton and builder Charlie Cruickshank of CC Built. Tucked in the foothills of Pāpāmoa, where farmland meets forest, a new kind of community space has put down permanent roots - one that has the local surroundings at the heart of the building...

When Annabel Busby first joined PGW Wool on a fixed-term maternity cover contract, she had no idea that six years later she’d have carried out almost every role in the company's Napier wool team - nor that she would find her calling in an industry she never expected to enter. Today, as Appraisal and...

Paerata Abraham was recently celebrated at the PGG Wrightson Masterton store after clinching the 2024/2025 PGG Wrightson Vetmed National Shearing Circuit title. This win not only etched his name into the shearing history books once again but he became the first Wairarapa competitor to claim the...