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If you’re new to the LandMarks Photo Collection, learn how you can participate for a chance to have your photos featured in the PGG Wrightson annual calendar. Participation with the LandMarks Photo Collection is easy: simply submit as many photos as you like, as often as you like until 11:59pm 30...

PGG Wrightson’s most accomplished young rural professionals test their skills against the best of the rest. Pictured is: Cam Gray, Peter Newbold (Livestock GM) & Lars Hardy (runner up) after last years competition. Four young PGG Wrightson livestock representatives are up for the challenge of taking...

Strong markets and favourable processor schedules spell good news for farmers, though some regions challenged by adverse climatic conditions. Strong demand for all types of livestock continues to support elevated values throughout the country. In a period where the last of the old season’s lambs...

After nine years as PGG Wrightson Livestock National Genetics Manager, he’s pulling on his boots and rolling up his sleeves. Callum Stewart has been a member of the PGG Wrightson Livestock National Genetics team since 2008, and its manager since 2016. Deciding it’s time for a refresh, both for...

Sixteen two tooth rams out of an innovative embryo transplant programme present improved shedding characteristics and better carcasses. Genetics to take shedding sheep to a new level in New Zealand, the result of a highly focused three-year embryo import programme, are available for the first time...

What makes a Forester stag ideal to breed replacement hinds? – and the easy cashflow option for farmers to defer payment on stag acquisitions. Looming large on the deer industry calendar, Peel Forest Estate’s upcoming on-farm Forrester Sire Sale, scheduled for 12 December, should test the strength...

After a surge in September that lifted prices to levels not seen in many years, the strong wool market has remained firm through October, continuing to provide a more positive outlook for growers. The average of all strong wool types has increased 25% compared to the same time last year. A great...

Two of New Zealand’s leading wool companies, Wools of New Zealand and PGG Wrightson (PGW), are exploring possible ways to consolidate aspects of their wool logistics operations. Entering into discussions to consider sharing logistics where appropriate is in response to the over-capacity across New...

PGW Wool is committed to supporting New Zealand growers with the expertise, services and innovation needed to meet a changing market. And part of that commitment - and to strengthen the link between procurement and export while planning for the future - a new Wool Export Account Manager role has...

It’s time to say ‘farewell Fletty’. After 56 years in the wool industry, Alistair Flett, affectionately known to everyone as Fletty, is hanging up his hat. And his retirement marks the end of a remarkable era for New Zealand wool, one defined not only by deep technical knowledge and hard work, but...

Behind every golf swing, raffle ticket, and BBQ burger at the recent Worm Burners tournament at the Taumaruanui Golf Club was a bigger purpose - to help families when they need it most. What began as an idea to replicate the old ‘stockies cockies days’ once held at the Ohura Golf Club has grown into...

The global rise of Padel (a sport invented in Mexico that combines elements of tennis, squash and badminton), along with the continuing growth of traditional tennis, means the strong, clean wool that New Zealand is well known for is in hot demand. Used to make the felt that covers tennis balls, it’s...

In the heart of Taranaki in 1881, 26-year-old Newton King established what would become one of New Zealand’s most respected stock and station agencies. Notably, it was his entrepreneurial spirit, vision, and sense of community trust that laid the foundation for a business that would thrive for over...

Jason Leslie, PGW Technical Expert – Animal Health (R), Charlotte Westwood Veterinary Nutritionist at PGG Wrightson Seeds (L), and Alice Hutchinson, Nutrition Technician at PGG Wrightson Seeds (C), collect faecal egg count samples from lambs at Kimihia, PGG Wrightson Seeds, near Lincoln, Canterbury...

When Ngāi Tukairangi Trust grew its horticultural footprint into Turanganui-a-Kiwa | Poverty Bay in 2022 by acquiring two orchards, it not only added some 36 hectares of premium Gold kiwifruit, persimmons, and mandarins to its operation, but also expanded its wealth of local knowledge. Bruce van...

It’s been a busy week at the Inglewood saleyards, with strong prices and solid demand across all categories, according to PGG Wrightson Taranaki Area Livestock Manager and Auctioneer Andrew Gibson. Speaking to The Country’s Hamish McKay from the yards — with a background chorus of cattle and...

Frederick Gonnerman Dalgety was born in Canada to a Scottish family with a strong military tradition. At 16 years old, he emigrated to Sydney, Australia, where sheep farming was increasingly viewed as prosperous business. In the years prior to Frederick’s arrival, wool exports to England had already...

Hawke’s Bay Hereford achieved New Zealand yearling record, while Bay of Plenty stud sends bulls nationwide. Two recent yearling bull sales left vendors and purchasers smiling, none with wider grins than the buyer and seller of a Hawke’s Bay Hereford bull that achieved a New Zealand record of $29,500...