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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...

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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...