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The Country's Jamie Mackay is joined by PGG Wrightson's General Manager for Rural Real Estate Peter Newbold, to take a look at the rural property market this month. The rural sector was receiving a lot of interest outside of the traditional rural buyers, Newbold said. Many of the buyers were looking...

Dion Kilmister runs 10,000 stock units out of his main breeding and finishing farm Bideford. GO-STOCK forms a big part of Bideford's growth, particularly in times where cashflow can be tight. Cattle can be a big outlay and often at inconvenient times of the year. By leveraging the benefits of Go...

An initiative that provides sheep and beef farmers with a livestock trading margin* with no initial cash outlay has been re-launched, with greater capacity. Jamie Molloy, PGG Wrightson National Livestock Supply Chain Manager explains how Go-Stock operates. “PGG Wrightson buys the stock and retains...

Listen now as The Country's Jamie Mackay is joined by PGG Wrightson's Mid-South Canterbury Livestock Manager, Joe Higgins, to talk about New Zealand's livestock market. The weather had been a blessing with rains preventing droughts. Higgins said that they were looking down the barrel of a potential...

Glenbrae Farm is located in Porangahau - Central Hawkes Bay. It is a commercially run property of approximately 370 hectares running 1500 Wiltshire ewes on medium hill country and coastal conditions. Alongside this the property also operates 165 Hereford stud cows commercially. With over 25 years of...

Caution in the market keeps buoyancy in check North Island feed conditions benefited from good rainfall in most districts post-Christmas. However, because many farmers had weaned early and moved ewes on after the drought of last year, stock rates were insufficient to take advantage. While that might...

Go-Stock from PGG Wrightson provides sheep and beef farmers a straight forward way to grow stock with no initial cash outlay. Several farmers using Go-Stock recently explained how Go-Stock has given them a simple solution to ease cashflow when farming cattle or sheep. Click here to view testimonials...

Good feed conditions driving steady demand for store lambs With plenty of rain over Christmas, especially in South Canterbury, North and East Otago where it was sorely needed, farmers throughout the South Island are benefiting from good feed conditions. Based on that confidence, demand at the South...

Buyers from New Zealand wide set to attend dispersal of 99 year old Romney stud Buyers from around the country are set to attend the dispersal of one of New Zealand’s highest profile Romney studs next month. Kikitangeo Romney just out of Wellsford was started in 1922 by the father and uncle of...

Offering achieves 100 per cent clearance and a 24 per cent increase on last season Judging by the reaction of buyers at a December stag sale in Taihape, deer farmers are not discouraged by the drop in international demand for venison that has occurred due to much of the global hospitality sector...

Velvet sales meeting good demand amid disruptions Although venison sales are severely impacted by the Covid-induced global closure of restaurants, the velvet market is providing deer farmers some confidence. By volume PGG Wrightson’s velvet sales this season are 20 per cent ahead of 2019/20. While...

Take advantage of PGG Wrightson’s experience and market intelligence. For those intending to purchase a dairy herd for next season, now is the time to act. Global Dairy Trade trends so far this year mean confidence in the payout is as good as it has been for a while. On the back of that, demand is...

This season’s sales indicate how farmers are future proofing flocks North Island ram sales have finished, while South Island sales are due to end next month. Prices and clearances have been approximately on par with last year’s sales. Several emerging trends in sheep genetics attracted particular...

Brett Te Whare from Aramiro Station takes us through how GO-STOCK helped take their farm to the next level. GO-STOCK proved an invaluable tool that allowed funds to be applied elsewhere to intermediate and short-term development rather than stock purchases, allowing Aramiro to focus on improving...

This week The Country's Jamie Mackay is joined by PGG Wrightson's Grant Edwards to look at the wool market this month and wrap up the wool report for 2020. Mackay said it has been a disastrous year for wool growers. Edwards agreed and added that they've had a tough finish for the year. The formation...

Jamie Cunningham joins Mark Leishman on Country TV to discuss the latest livestock news and the state of the dairy sector.

Locals will have noticed that the Masterton Saleyards have not operated since the first COVID-19 lockdown in March 2020. The lockdown resulted in the cancellation of the weaner fairs and subsequently with no saleyards operating under Alert Levels 4 and 3, the co-owners, PGG Wrightson Limited* (PGW)...

The Country's Jamie Mackay is joined by PGG Wrightson's General Manager for Rural Real Estate Peter Newbold to take a look at the rural property market this month. Good news for the New Zealand rural real estate industry as Newbold explains that the past few months have been exceptional for sellers...