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A new beanie from our PGW partner, Norsewear, is helping showcase the value of New Zealand wool, with the recently launched Wool Blacks™ beanie made using Wool Integrity NZ certified wool sourced directly from PGW Wool growers. Designed for the parents, grandparents, coaches, volunteers and...

When Joe Blakiston reflects on more than 40 years with PGG Wrightson and its predecessor companies, there is one theme that comes up time and time again. "It's the people." Not the deals, the properties, the stock sales or the titles. For Joe, a career that has spanned some of the biggest changes in...

Mātai Pacific Iwi Collective has won the 2026 Ahuwhenua Trophy for Excellence in Māori Horticulture, the most prestigious award in Māori horticulture and one PGG Wrightson is proud to sponsor. The win was announced at the Ahuwhenua Awards dinner in Whangārei, in front of more than 700 people from...

Moving Day has officially finished for another year, with farmers, sharemilkers, contract milkers, and farm staff packing up their households, machinery, and livestock to relocate to new farms for the upcoming season. It’s also a busy time financially, with dairy cow herds changing ownership, Andrew...

Bulls, cull cows, two-year-old cattle, store lambs and dairy herds all changing hands as livestock markets ease into regular seasonal shift. Nationwide livestock markets are almost in winter mode. Although dry districts in some pockets of the South Island would benefit from rain, most farmers have...

Image credit to: Sentient Imagery Limited . New bidr option proves its worth, underpinning demand and reaching nationwide market at South Otago Simmental stud’s annual bull sale. A new format for bidr, an online helmsman auction, proved its worth at this year’s Beresford Simmental bull sale...

Multi-generational Te Awamutu butchery turns to PGG Wrightson to supply new operation producing pulled meat for nationwide distribution. A new opportunity has arisen for Waikato and King Country farmers producing Hereford cattle. A long-established local butcher has turned to PGG Wrightson to...

Looking forward to whatever the future holds. Growing up on his parents’ Bindy and Steve Free’s Dannevirke sheep and beef farm, Max Free always knew farming was in his future. “Being outdoors in the landscape, working alongside inspiring people, seeing the country: I’ve always been drawn to that.”...

In-fawn hinds from Altrive Red Deer, Riversdale continue to prove the benefits of bidr to find buyers for premium bloodlines. A Southland deer stud, the first in the country to use bidr, is preparing for its eighth annual in-fawn winter hind sale on New Zealand’s virtual saleyard. Altrive Red Deer...

Interest rates, returns and renewed bank enthusiasm boost sector and stimulate activity on dairying’s biggest day. This year’s Moving Day, the start of the new dairy season and one of the most important on the rural calendar, was one of the busiest for several years. Reduced interest rates, strong...

Rob Wards still knows the old building on Bennetts Road like the back of his hand. It sits a few kilometres east of Roxburgh township and has been part of the district’s horticultural backbone for decades - long before modern supply chains and forklifts, it was used as a storage point for fruit...

Rachel Shearer, General Manager of PGW Wool, speaks with Jamie Mackay from The Country on market momentum, natural fibres, and the outlook for sheep farming. Strong wool’s upward momentum continues, with the latest national wool sale delivering another significant lift and reinforcing growing...

Strong outlooks in dairy and horticulture, alongside generational change in the sector, are supporting continued activity in New Zealand’s rural property market. PGG Wrightson general manager of livestock and real estate, Peter Newbold, said succession was top of mind for many in the sector. “If you...

Farming close to the consumer Hamish Best and his partner Caroline Flood run Conscious Valley just eight kilometres from Wellington's CBD. That proximity isn't incidental. It's central to how they've built their business, supplying locally grown beef and lamb direct to some of the city's best...

When Nigel Thorpe started work with Dalgety NZ Ltd in Greymouth on February 15, 1982, his first job was sweeping floors out the back of the store as an office junior. Present day, and nearly 45 years later, Nigel is the National Livestock Supply Chain Manager for PGG Wrightson and is now looking...

The autumn bull sales have kicked off this week with a lot of interest in beef, but can last year’s record price of $161,000 for an Angus bull be topped? PGG Wrightson’s National Genetics Manager, Callum McDonald, reckons that’s “the million-dollar question” - but never say never. “With the beef...

After a sustained period of growth, the wool market has continued to hold at significantly improved levels through recent sales. Strong competition and tightening supply are supporting confidence across the sector, with prices paid in the auction room the highest they have been since 2011. The move...

For Carley Pryce, wool has never been ‘just a job’. It’s been a thread running through her working life since she was a teenager, shaping her skills, her confidence, and her connection to rural New Zealand. Now, after years of building experience across the agricultural sector, Carley has taken the...