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...
Aug 11, 2022 | New Zealand Politics, News, Newsletters
Earl Twigley, manager for Humphrey Bayly on Okare Station, Wairoa, at Wairere, November 2021. Okare has been buying Wairere rams since 1987, except for a brief interval with Perendales twenty years ago. Earl is a quiet achiever, consistently lambing in the high 130s...
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