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School students in a small Central Otago town are learning first-hand about some of the environmental benefits of wool compared to synthetic fibre, which is easier to describe as plastic fibre in today’s world. Thanks to a challenge put to St Johns School, Ranfurly in 2018 by PGG Wrightson Wool...

Susan and Roger Hayward farm 900 hectares of hill country, running 10,000 stock units. They recommend Go-Lamb after being introduced to it by their PGG Wrightson livestock agent. As the Haywards supply lambs weekly, Go-Lamb is a game changer allowing them to stock more lambs as lambs are sold. GO...

This week The Country's Jamie Mackay is joined by PGG Wrightson's Wool Procurement Manager, Rob Cochrane, to look at the wool market this month. The market was still going through difficult times. Mackay said it was not good with one of his friends, who was selling ewe fleece for $2.10 NZD per kilo...

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

We are proud to be a Gold Partner and offer our support to What’s the Beef! What's the Beef is a farmer-focussed roadshow, to be run in 10 locations across New Zealand and tailored to the commercial beef farmer. The short, multi-dimensional workshops are designed to educate producers about the added...

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...