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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...