Jul 1, 2025 | New Zealand Politics, News, Newsletters
A bright future The 2025 financial year is ending much better than it started. But the first half of the year still ranked in the misery index for those of us/you who had to sell most lambs and ewes before Christmas. Or were hammered by storms. Or endured the...
Apr 28, 2025 | New Zealand Politics, Newsletters
Some of 850 Streaker and a few Nudie ewe hoggets with Brazilian lambs. Auction On January 28 Wairere will hold the first auction of FE resilient Nudie/Wiltshire rams, at Te Kuiti saleyards. Viewing from 11am, auction 1pm. At weaning on November 19th, 92 ram lambs...
Aug 28, 2024 | New Zealand Politics, News, Newsletters
Purebred Nudie two tooth ewes Are we farming on the same planet?? Pierre Syben visited the Stirling sheep market in Scotland on July 18. “Good cull ewes made up to $NZ460, poor ewes down to $220. Some of these ewes are 90kgLW, BelTex cross which probably kill out at...
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...
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