Initiative a real enabler for business focused on finishing.

In the past five years PGG Wrightson initiative Go-Stock has put 1.4 million lambs and 220,000 cattle on farms throughout New Zealand.

Go-Stock operates for sheep and cattle, and was recently extended to deer. It serves to ease cashflow on farm: PGG Wrightson buys the stock and retains ownership, meaning no initial cash outlay for farmers. Farmers then graze and grow the stock before deciding, in conjunction with us, when and where PGG Wrightson will sell them. PGG Wrightson pays any resulting positive trading margin to the farmer, less our fees and selling costs.

Susan and Roger Hayward farm Twin Oaks, 900 hectares of hill country at Te Akau, Waikato. For them Go-Stock has been a game changer, making their procurement and sale of lambs easier and more successful.

“We supply fat lambs weekly, so Go-Stock really works for us. Being able to work around feed surplus and demand, Go-Stock is an absolute game changer because we are able to procure lambs as we sell them. That is an opportunity for our business that is otherwise not always there. 

“We run around 10,000 stock units, with 500 Angus females on the stud side as well as young stock. In our farming philosophy Go-Stock works so well because we don’t have ewes: we just margin trade, and finish our stock purely on what we grow.

“Go-Stock is super-successful, and has increased our capacity. It is a real enabler for farmers,” they say.

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