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Local farming community rallies around Cancer Society fund-raiser after Covid knocks out Daffodil Day PGG Wrightson Regional Livestock Manager East Coast Jamie Hayward and his Gisborne-based team were right behind this year’s annual Cancer Society charity auction, which is well supported by the...

PGG Wrightson’s finest set to take on best of the rest at tenth annual Heartland Bank Young Auctioneers Competition in November Some of PGG Wrightson’s sharpest young rural professionals will go up against the best of the rest of the country in a few weeks at the tenth annual Heartland Bank Young...

Bringing past experience to bear in sole charge of a large territory. Robbie Lash covers a fair amount of country: 415 kilometres from Westport in the north of his patch to Haast in the south, plus all points in between, which puts between 70,000 and 80,000 clicks on the clock of his Hyundai Santa...

Track and trace system enhances opportunity, particularly for Chinese market Described by many in bygone years as a by-product, velvet now provides a significant income stream, which at present is sustaining the deer industry. Growth in both onshore production and offshore consumption continues to...

Performance plays an increasingly important part as ram numbers rise in the face of a diminishing national ewe flock This year’s annual ram sale season starts on 28 October in Masterton, running through until mid-December in the North Island, while South Island ram sales will continue until mid...

Former World champions Nathan Stratford and Joel Henare have won the two major titles at the first event of the new shearing sports season. Stratford, from Invercargill, claimed the New Zealand Merino Shears Open shearing title for a fifth time, and Henare, from Gisborne, won the Open woolhandling...

Rob and Steph are based in Albury, farming 1100 hectares. Together they run 9000 stock units of breeding, finishing and store stock. Their agent introduced them to GO-BEEF and GO-LAMB which they run all their lambs and cattle through. Using the two contracts helps manage their cash flow in the most...

Managing a 1600 hectare property with 9300 stock units, Luke started using GO-STOCK through their agent, running Jersey bulls and trading lambs. The lambs put through GO-STOCK are solely for trading and putting them them through the GO-STOCK system has made it easier to free up capital. Hear more...

Fruitfed was established in 1916 as a grower-owned organisation and although the ownership structure has changed over its more than 100-year history, the name Fruitfed has remained. Today Fruitfed Supplies is the horticultural trading division of PGW and for over 60 years our Technical Team has been...

The Anderson family has lived on Kalimera, a picturesque 930 hectare farm located in Conway Flat, North Canterbury, since 1945. Tim and Sue are the third generation on the farm and the second generation to run the Perendale stud, which was established by Tim’s father. Their son, Edward (Woody) and...

Te Roroa Group PGW’s Māori Agribusiness team is a dedicated unit within PGW providing guidance on farming practices that align with the environmental values of our Māori agribusiness clients. Our dedicated Iwi Relationship Managers liaise with our Māori agribusiness clients and the team engages with...

WOOL ARTICLE: Wool Market a “Game of Two Halves” This week The Country’s Jamie Mackay is joined by PGG Wrightson’s GM for wool, Grant Edwards, to take a look at the wool market this month. Mackay describes the market as a “game of two halves.” Edwards agrees and explains that this is around the...

New Zealand’s first-ever fully online bull semen sale attracted intense Trans-Tasman interest and achieved a record price. PGG Wrightson Livestock National Genetics Manager Callum Stewart organised the sale, on 7 September 2021, through New Zealand’s virtual saleyard, bidr®. He says it showed the...

Listen Now. PGG Wrightson Livestock Report on The Country 03 Aug 2021. The Country’s Jamie Mackay is joined by PGG Wrightson’s national genetics manager, Callum Stewart, to talk about New Zealand’s livestock market. Mackay comments how Fielding might be the nation’s capital for farming, especially...

Listen now: Lockdown won’t stop the Rural Market The Country’s Jamie Mackay is joined by PGG Wrightson’s General Manager for Livestock and Rural Real Estate Peter Newbold to take a look at the rural property market this month with New Zealand being at alert level 4 lockdown. Mackay queries if this...

bidr® now livestreaming sales at selected saleyards, with more to follow. After its launch in 2019 as a purely online trading platform, following the COVID lockdown last year, bidr® introduced its hybrid livestreamed product for on-farm auctions. This provided a fully integrated online bidding...

Taking responsibility for contributing to a large proportion of annual farm income. Growing up in Palmerston North, Cam Heggie decided he wanted to go into agriculture. A short stint as a farm cadet reinforced that decision, though persuaded him that he wasn’t cut out to be a farmer. “I went to...

Defer-A-Bull helps South Otago sharemilker meet bull team cashflow challenge. Through September and October with hybrid bidr® and on-farm sales, the yearling bull sale season is a prompt for many farmers to apply for a PGG Wrightson Defer-A-Bull purchase agreement. Defer-A-Bull is a proven winner...