May 22, 2024 | New Zealand Politics, News, Newsletters
Is there light at the end of the tunnel? Wairere two tooth sire rams January 2024 When you’re at the bottom it’s hard to see the top. We are all enduring a squeeze of low product prices, spiralling costs and tripling interest rates. And a large area of the country is...
Jan 25, 2024 | New Zealand Politics, News, Newsletters
Streaker hoggets (1/2 Nudie) and Brazilian lambs (3/4 Nudie). Streaker ewe hoggets docked 89% in 2023 2023-24 is shaping up to be the worst year for sheep farmers in a long time. How do we dig out of this hole? If you treat pressure as your friend, this is the chance...
Aug 16, 2023 | New Zealand Politics, News, Newsletters
One of five mating groups of purebred and first cross Nudie Romney ewe hoggets, mid April. The first cross Nudies (Streakers) scanned 134%, 9% dry, the purebreds 104%, 20% dry. The global meat price index peaked in June 2022. The index is continuing to fall as China’s...
May 18, 2023 | New Zealand Politics, News, Newsletters
Purebred and first cross Nudie ewe hoggets being mated to purebred Nudie ram lambs, early May What a change in just twelve months. From one of the best years in recent times, a drop in farm gate prices plus rampant inflation in all costs is putting huge pressure on...
Jan 30, 2023 | New Zealand Politics, News, Newsletters
Wairere ewes with purebred Nudie lambs at eight weeks old Sheep farmers are under siege. A siege caused by a combination of falling prices, fast rising costs, and a government determined to frame livestock farmers for a crime against the world climate…blame the...
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