Be afraid
OPINION: Your old mate hears some of the recent uptick in farmer confidence has slipped since the political polls started…
New Zealand companies need to step up their efforts, in view of the hope for better lamb prices this season evaporating faster than a summer shower.
Semi-retirees from Gore, Peter and Corina Morris, took out the Mint Lamb Competition at the Canterbury A&P Show on November 9.
Will sheep and beef farmers in future grow trees to sell offsets to dairy under the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS)?
Lamb producers in Australia appear to be faring much better than their New Zealand counterparts, with falling numbers and growing demand hiking prices.
Strains of the helicobacter bacteria, which live in the stomach, are now believed a possible cause of abortion in ewes, following MPI investigations.
Sheep farmers desperately looking for a lift in lamb prices this coming season may be in for more disappointment, according to Alliance Group chairman Murray Taggart.
Field studies are currently underway to find out if there’s a relationship between drenching pregnant sheep with long-acting drenches and lamb mortality.
The decision by a majority of the people in the UK to effectively vote themselves a recession is astounding. But then across the Atlantic one Donald Trump also has an unbelievable following which defies logic.