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...
May 12, 2022 | New Zealand Politics, News, Newsletters
Bare Hair ewes in the UK, part of a flock of 3,000 in the UK. 85% of Wairere’s embryos came from this flock, which is farmed outdoors all year round, on rented grazing, mostly with no fertiliser input. The season There have been extremes across the country....
Jan 10, 2022 | New Zealand Politics, News, Newsletters
Wairere Romney x “Multimeat Merino”, just tailed at Wannon Pastoral, Australia. Second cut of 2,000 sold at weaning, 100 days old, 29kg $a140. Top cut went to own feedlot for February contract at $8.50/kg carcass weight. Take the best Romney genetics in...
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