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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...

After much of the world went into lockdown due to the pandemic, prices for all types of wool dropped by between 35 and 40 per cent. Since July we have regained most of these losses. Values however remain volatile with a recent appreciation of the NZD not aiding this recovery. Initially that was...

Listen now as PGG Wrightson's Otago Livestock Manager, John Duffy, takes a look at the state of New Zealand's livestock market, particularly in the South Island.

Mt Cass Station, located in Waipara North Canterbury, is an organic unit running 8,300 Wiltshire Ewes on medium hill country. With over 13 years of quality breeding Wiltshire’s they have used best in class Genetics to combine a low cost of production, self shedding, parasite resistance, and carcass...

Livestock Market Report: South Island update Good rainfall in the past few days has been welcome throughout the South Island. Areas that will benefit most are Marlborough Canterbury and South Canterbury. On 4 November the first spring lamb sale of the season was held on Banks Peninsula. We saw...

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

The Country's Jamie Mackay is joined by PGG Wrightson's Grant Edwards to look at the wool market this month. Edwards provided some positive news with a lift within the crossbreed of around 25 cents per kilo greasy. Edwards noted that the market was back around to pre-Covid levels. China continued to...

Peter Moore joins Mark Leishman on CountryTV to discuss the latest livestock news.

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 cracks into it talking about Fonterra’s recent activity and queries corporates investing back into farming. Newbold confirms and...

The King Country region is very proud to offer five self-shedding ram sales in November. Kaahu Genetics are one of the first in New Zealand to be offering Kaahu White Shedding Rams – Kaahu purchased Australian White rams from Tattykeel Stud in Australia and also purchased 43 Australian White Stud...

The number of cattle coming forward to the market in the spring has been larger than recent years as farmers off load as areas such as Canterbury and parts of Otago have become dry. Also not helping is the cold and wet conditions in the South, limiting feed availability. The store cattle market has...

The spring yearling bull sales are finished for the season and have brought strong results for all our breeders. Bulls have been presented to a high-quality standard and partially due to a kind winter, this has been a real credit to our breeders producing animals fit for purpose. Demand for Heifer...

As of 1 October 2020, we have had a change of leadership in the Livestock business. Peter Newbold, currently General Manager Real Estate, has been appointed to lead Livestock (in addition to Real Estate), as we advance the evolution of the business. In this role of General Manager Livestock & Real...

Spring cattle sales in the South Island have started with plenty of cattle coming on to the market, particularly in those areas where dry conditions have sent warning signals to farmers wary of a repeat of last year’s drought. PGG Wrightson South Island Livestock Manager Shane Gerken says...