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Schedule at $8, plus Asian demand for velvet fuels confidence for upcoming sales Venison is good news for deer farmers this year with the schedule sitting around $8 per kilogram. Following better than expected demand during the chilled venison season confidence is returning to the sector, demand is...

Excellent payout and future prospects giving farmers the confidence to invest in stock This season’s market for dairy herds is particularly buoyant. Enquiry is as strong as it has been in a few years. As farmers sit on one of the highest ever payouts, while also anticipating equivalent prosperity...

A rare opportunity to buy foundation females, a stock family that goes back 70 years. Merchiston Angus is a stud business north east of Marton. It was established in 1955 on a property held in the same family through four generations. In addition to the Angus stud, Merchiston has sheep and...

Recently we were on-farm at Orari Gorge Station to film a video about their big sale day. Orari Gorge Stn is a 4000 hectare farm in the South Canterbury foothills. Managed by fifth generation owner Robert Peacock, in January Orari Gorge Station ran its annual on-farm lamb sale. Joe Higgins and Rod...

Interview with Grant Edwards Jamie Mackay from The Country spoke with Grant Edwards GM of Wool for PGG Wrightson and started with a topic on everybody’s mind right now: Russia. Now that New Zealand has joined with other western countries in imposing sanctions on Russia, will it make it difficult for...

We are very fortunate Johnny and Geraldine Duncan had us on Craigneuk Station in the Maniototo where they run sheep, beef and deer. Some great footage of a successful ram sale, for those of you who were unable to be there, or for those keen to take a second look. Their annual January on-farm ram...

Dorset Downs and Dorset Down/Southdown X rams well received by enthusiastic following at popular annual Central Otago sale One of Central Otago’s most significant annual ram sales, at Craigneuk Farm, Maniototo took place in mid-January. Craigneuk rams comprise Dorset Downs alongside Dorset Down...

Young Waikato dairy, sheep and beef rep looking long term Brook Cushion has quiet confidence. “For a livestock rep, the nature of the job is doing as we promise and as our clients expect, keeping our ducks in a row to make any deal as smooth as possible. Seeing the end results, whether buying or...

Positive trends for velvet and venison evident in recent sire stag and elk wapiti bull sales Challenging conditions over the past two years, particularly for venison returns, seem to have been overcome, leaving deer farmers with an increasingly positive outlook. A series of recent livestock sales...

Acquisition of bulls and lambs made easy at Waihemo Downs, Dunback Go-Stock is PGG Wrightson’s easy solution for on-farm cashflow. For farmers who have other uses for capital, Go-Stock means no need to spend cash up front. Scott Tomlinson, Waihemo Downs, Dunback, East Otago uses Go-Stock to assist...

Favourable weather and encouraging schedules stimulate livestock market activity Late November and early December rain across much of the North Island maintained good feed levels through December and into early new year. However, as January progressed sustained warm weather coupled with a solid...

Merchiston Angus offering 170 mixed age cattle with premium genetics Breeders and followers of Angus cattle will take note of a major dispersal sale at Merchiston Angus, north east of Marton, on 28 March. With a stud founded in 1955 on a property held in the same family through four generations...

Young guns set five-stand nine-hour world record for strong wool lambs at Te Pa Station, Ruapehu Just prior to Christmas, PGG Wrightson was proud to be associated with a new world shearing record. A team organised by Te Kuiti based Fagan Shearing, comprising Delwyn Jones (729), Llion Jones (725)...

Schedule and feed availability motivating buyers, and keeping vendors satisfied South Island lamb sales are the main focus for the month of January. Over 40,000 South Island lambs were sold in the week of 10 January, mainly at on farm sales. Confidence in the processing schedules, and plenty of feed...

Put hundreds of thousands on the bottom line by improving genetics, nutrition and farm management Do you want to align your product with the demand for quality that comes from premium markets – and reap the financial rewards? ‘What’s the Beef’ gives farmers an opportunity to fully understand how the...

On-farm sales increasingly popular, while bidr influence also grows South Island ram sales progressed favourably through January. Prices strengthened slightly on last year. As ever, good rams sell well, particularly when breeders present detailed, accurate data. On-farm ram sales are growing in...

Livestock Report: Venison and Velvet. 20.01.2022 Rowena Duncum from The Country talks with Tony Cochrane, National Deer and Velvet Manager for PGG Wrightson, about the big prices being paid for premium stags and bulls. Cochrane agrees that most prices paid are up at least 10 percent on last year’s...

A commercial Southland dairy herd this week became New Zealand’s highest value online livestock sale. Winton farmers Simon and Liz Harnett’s crossbred Friesian herd of in-calf cows sold for $2175 per head. With 360 two- to eight-year-old cows offered from a total herd of 440 in milk, the $783,000...