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This week PGG Wrightson's South Island wool procurement manager Rob Cochrane joins The Country's Jamie Mackay to look at the wool market this month. The 2019/20 wool season wrapped up yesterday with 17 thousand bales on offer across both islands, and there are a lot of growers still resisting and...

Traditional shearing competitions season-opener, the New Zealand Merino Shears has been cancelled this year, as organisers work to mark its 60th anniversary post-Covid in style in 2021. The championships in Alexandra were to have been held on October 2-3. The NZ Merino Shears usually attracts over...

Increased sales leading into winter and kiwifruit market praised. The Country's Jamie Mackay is joined by PGG Wrightson's GM for Rural Real Estate Peter Newbold to take a look at the rural property market this month. It had been an interesting period, according to Newbold, who noted that a lot of...

Bull Sales Week 5 Our Bidr Hybrid auctions are leading the forefront of our Bull sales for 2020. This has enabled the introduction of online selling and on farm auctions to integrate with a driving force in the market. We are already at week 5 of a 6-week selling season and prices are tracking above...

Peter Moore joins Mark Leishman on CountryTV for this month's livestock roundup.

PGG Wrightson's GM for Livestock, Peter Moore catches up with The Country's Jamie Mackay to chat about livestock around New Zealand. The backlog with the processing works had caught up, particularly with sheep. Although there was still a hold up with the prime beef sector, it was nothing compared to...

PGG Wrightson Wool general manager Grant Edwards said it was thanks to the hard work between the industry and MPI that the wool supply chain has been able to work through the different status levels caused by Covid-19. Under alert level four they were able to shear sheep where required and mobilise...

B ull sales around the country are going ahead but in a very different way to normal. PGG Wrightson National Genetics Manager, Callum Stewart, said sales would be held online using the Bidr platform, from May 13, with 38 sales booked for Bidr. Stewart said some clients had decided to push sale dates...

Greg Millar, National Manager of Fundraising for the IHC announces a new ambassador for IHC Calf & Rural Scheme, to follow in the huge footsteps of Sir Colin "Pinetree" Meads. Listen to the full interview with the Country's Jamie Mackay.

PGG Wrightson GM for wool, Grant Edwards joins The Country's Jamie Mackay to look at how the wool market is faring this month, post New Zealand's Covid-19 lockdown. Mackay said the wool market was in real trouble as it was down 25 per cent from where it was in late February and early March. Two...

Put any type of sheep in front of shearer Angus Moore and he won’t be fazed. The 35-year-old Marlborough shearer and shearing contractor talks more like a sheep breeder, with an appreciation of wool genetics and sheep structure, that shows his farming genealogy. His technique of elegantly removing a...

Peter Moore joins Mark Leishman on CountryTV for this month's livestock roundup.

Working from home for a period of approximately eight weeks, allows awareness of how life can be changed by something completely beyond our control. A lot of New Zealanders can reflect on how their lives change in an instant, through earthquakes, extreme weather events, global financial crisis and...

When Ina Nukutai first came to New Zealand in 1980 he was a schoolboy aiming to finish his education at Napier Boys High. Born and raised in Rarotonga, Ina soon found that his ability on the rugby field, where he played at number eight, was a good way to make friends and fit in. “I was selected for...

GM for Rural Real Estate Peter Newbold joins The Country's Jamie Mackay as he journeys out of the home office for the first time since the lockdown. Mackay comments on some positivity in the primary sector, and mentions a previous conversation with Todd Muller that highlights the movement of people...

The Country's Jamie Mackay is joined by PGG Wrightson's GM for Livestock Peter Moore, to chat about livestock in regards to New Zealand's move to alert level 2. Some sales yards did open yesterday, with smaller volumes of people through than expected. Next week will be more indicative of how much...

PGG Wrightson Livestock General Manager Peter Moore joins Mark Leishman on Country TV for the livestock RoundUp to discuss the move into Level 2 with the Saleyards reopening and bidr, the on-line selling platform for livestock transactions.

Bull Sales Callum Stewart - Livestock Genetics Specialist Our Bull selling season is about to kick off from the 13 th May at 1pm. With the very first of our Auctions being held online @ bidr.co.nz, check out the auction here. The very first sale up is our PGG Wrightson Online Angus bull sale, with...