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Peter Moore joins Mark Leishman on CountryTV for this months livestock roundup.

Weigh scales and cloud technology have combined to offer a proactive solution to measure and monitor stock on an individual basis, enabling timely decision-making on-farm. “The combined use of Tru-Test hardware coupled with Datamars Livestock cloud software delivers strong benefits for farmers,”...

Calf rearer, Aidan Cowley prefers to rear calves on whole milk. He stores around 40,000 L of colostrum milk, and rears half his calves on it only. But the milk doesn’t last forever, so Aidan must use Calf Milk Replacer (CMR). Following the advice from PGG Wrightson Customer Service Representative...

Farmers increasingly appreciate the practical and high-value alternative in the form of energy-dense pellets. Quality pellets are easy to use, low waste and highly digestible. A pellet’s quality is determined by its consistency of composition. Each mouthful contains the same nutritional mix with the...

Sulphur (S) is present in all plants and is involved in photosynthesis, overall energy metabolism and carbohydrate production. It is part of an enzyme required for Nitrogen (N) uptake, so a lack of S can hamper N’s influence on plant growth. Together with N, S enables the formations of amino acids...

Perennial weeds grow from one year to the next, usually from a large root system or root chip. New generations usually flower and seed in late summer and the parent plant normally shuts down over winter, lives off the energy reserves in its roots, then wakes up in the spring to continue growing...

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. Although the lockdown had put restrictions around trading, a few properties had been sold in the past month, said Newbold. The majority...

This week The Country's Jamie Mackay is joined by PGG Wrightson's GM for wool Grant Edwards to talk about the wool industry as New Zealand prepares to enter alert level 3. The wool industry had been fortunate enough to be able to ship and export high density wool bales at port under alert level 4...

Peter Moore joins Mark Leishman on Country TV for the April Livestock Roundup.

Watch the latest farmers voice episode where Wiggy catches up with long time PGG Wrightson clients the Blackwells. Since the 1960’s the Blackwells have farmed on Mangaotea Station, taking pride in the high-quality cattle they produce. These days Rob, Jaqueline and Zarrah farm three separate cattle...

The Country's Jamie Mackay is joined by PGG Wrightson's GM for Livestock, Peter Moore, to chat about livestock around the country in light of the lockdown. Allocation of processing space to farmers is verging on crisis as it is a massive challenge to get stock prepared for consumption. Moore said...

Peter Moore joins Mark Leishman on Country TV for the April Livestock Roundup.

In autumn, lice populations on cattle increase. This is due to temperature and humidity levels becoming more favourable for lice survival on the animals. Lice populations rise to reach their peak in winter and early spring. In New Zealand, there are two types of lice, a sucking species which pierces...

We all know that weeds in pastures are undesirable, but a recent study sponsored by the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment 1 has reported that we have likely been underestimating their full cost to New Zealand agriculture. The study estimated that the total cost for just 10 common...

The business relationship between Nelson contractors Kevin and Andrew Fry (K & A Fry Contracting) and PGG Wrightson has grown so strong over the last five years, that both parties now promote and refer one another to new farmers in the district. Established in 2002, K & A Fry Contracting are the...

When soil sampling, we usually collect the sample by block or by paddock. This is purely driven by ease of sampling logistics, such as crop area or fencing around a paddock, rather than yield variability and soil type, which in fact have the biggest influence on available plant nutrient. Zonal soil...

When soil moisture is discussed, certain terms are used to describe its status, but what exactly do they mean? Water moves through soil and is held in pores and on soil surfaces. The relative size and proportion of the pores in the soil determine the vital soil physical characteristics, such as...

Peter Moore, GM of Livestock, joins Mark Leishman to look at the issues facing farmers in lockdown and to discuss BIDR, the on-line selling platform for livestock transactions.