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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 20232023-24 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...

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Reality Check

Reality Check

Purebred and first cross Nudie ewe hoggets being mated to purebred Nudie ram lambs, early MayWhat 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...

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Where’s the upside

Where’s the upside

Wairere ewes with purebred Nudie lambs at eight weeks oldSheep 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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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...

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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. Half New...

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Start at the top

Start at the top

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 New Zealand and...

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Going for gold

Going for gold

Roger and Matthew Smith's magnificent ewe hoggets, scanned 141 %, story later.  Wairere Romneys put a distinctive stamp on their progeny around the world, in New Zealand, Australia, UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Chile. Example: Jim Logan in Scotland has saved £100,000...

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The best superfood?

The best superfood?

Crayfish or lamb? October 2020, docking time at White Rock Station, south Wairarapa coast. Photo by Rob Dick. Meat was the original superfood The media and green lobby groups seem to think that the world can be “saved” by not eating meat. This opinion ignores history....

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Sink or Swim

Sink or Swim

Where is the New Zealand economy headed?Over the past few years food producers in New Zealand have been subjected to a relentless smear campaign by lobby groups, media and the government. The general public has been brainwashed to think that our food production needs...

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Newsletter | August 2020

Newsletter | August 2020

Sink or SwimThe “new normal” has consumed our outlook over the past six months. Now that we are partially off the global economy treadmill of pre Covid, how do we position ourselves for an uncertain future? The answer is the perennial advice: do the basics well, and...

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Newsletter | June 2020

Newsletter | June 2020

A brave new worldWhat a tumultuous six months it has been. From a spring full of promise for record farm gate prices...to drought, lock down, and a sharp reduction in prices. Apart from the early birds, it has been a disappointing season for many sheep and beef...

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