Where’s the upside?

Where’s the upside?

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...
Reality Check

Reality Check

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...
Where’s the upside

Where’s the upside

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...
Good times are here

Good times are here

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...
Your future in sheep farming?

Your future in sheep farming?

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....
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