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Callum Stewart, PGG Wrightson's National Genetics Manager, joins Mark Leishman on Country TV with an update on current market trends for genetics and livestock.

Listen now as The Country's Jamie Mackay is joined by PGG Wrightson's National Velvet Manager, Tony Cochrane, to talk about New Zealand's livestock market. Cochrane talks about how farmers are faring on the Banks Peninsula with changeable weather impacting crop growth. Mackay notes that most of the...

Matt Langtry has been appointed North Island Livestock Manager. Matt comes to the role having spent over 11 years with PGG Wrightson. Over this time Matt has held management positions across the business including Regional Manager, Manawatu / Taranaki and more recently Lower North Island Livestock...

This week The Country's Jamie Mackay is joined by PGG Wrightson's Grant Edwards to look at the wool market this month. Edwards talks about the downward slump the market is currently experiencing, and how a shift in our currency has influenced all exports and farmers' harvest costs. Mackay...

bidr® continues its commitment to offering buyers and sellers of livestock a seamless online experience whether they are bidding at an on-farm or saleyard auction. bidr® recently introduced its on-farm hybrid livestream auctions for on-farm/auctioneer sales which fully integrate on-farm sales with...

The winner of the inaugural Ahuwhenua Trophy Excellence in Māori Horticulture Award 2020 is Te Kaha 15B Hineora Orchard. Hineora Orchard is a Māori freehold land block located in the Eastern Bay of Plenty township of Te Kaha, 65km east of Ōpōtiki. The announcement was made on Friday 20th November...

Tania Smith, General Managed of bidr, joins Mark Leishman on Country TV with an update on how bidr is settling in with the livestock industry.

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. Mackay queries the return of corporate investors back into farming. Newbold confirms that they have returned along with a variety of...

Trade in dairy livestock has been positive this spring, with farmers encouraged by reasonable grass growth and favourable forecasts for this season’s dairy payout. PGG Wrightson National Dairy Livestock Manager Jamie Cunninghame says momentum has built since the mid-October start of the dairy beef...

Despite low crossbred prices, growers need to stick to a high standard of wool preparation to maximise wool returns. We need to maintain New Zealand’s reputation for producing a high quality product, which all begins on farm and in the woolshed. Raddle Use of non-scourable raddle on your sheep is...

New Zealand farmers are the first in the world able to breed low methane-emitting sheep. A ten year breeding programme funded by the Pastoral Greenhouse Gas Research Consortium (PGGRC) and the New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre resulted in a breeding value for methane emissions...

In mid-October PGG Wrightson held the company’s first wool webinar. An online woolshed meeting, nicknamed the ‘Woolinar,’ we welcomed wool growers from around the country, alongside participants from the United Kingdom, India and Australia. Aiming to provide growers with relevant sector information...

Maree, right, was at the Waimai Ram Sale recently where she caught up with Elle Perriam from Allflex, who acknowledged the proceeds from the sale of a donated ram towards ‘Will to Live,’ encouraging more young people to speak up. Working alongside growers in Waikato, north to the Auckland Harbour...

PGG Wrightson Wool rep and South Island auctioneer Doug McKay was a guest recently at Ashburton’s Longbeach School, which this year chose to focus on wool as their Country Day theme. Presenting to the whole school, Doug talked about the different purposes and types of wool, passing round plenty of...

In 1934 LC Rolls was General Manager of Williams and Kettle, a stock and station agency and general merchant of 50 years standing with branches throughout the east coast of the North Island. Headquartered in Napier, three years into recovery from its massive earthquake Mr Rolls was responsible for...

Sarah Reed’s husband Jono is the third generation of the Reed family to farm The Grampians, a 3500 hectare high country station 18 kilometres west of Culverden. With the couple’s young children Hank, Greta and Alba poised to eventually take on the mantle, Sarah, a nurse by profession, was keen to...

30 merino growers recently congregated in Christchurch for a full day grower supplier meeting with Norwegian outdoor clothing company - Devold. They were joined by PGG Wrightson representatives for a live video conference linking the growers with Devold senior management and various other business...

As the present fine wool sale season is drawing to an end, mid micron and merino returns to wool growers have largely recovered to pre-lockdown levels. Although returns are still back on what was sold in the previous two years, they remain well ahead of long-term historical averages. Increased...