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Fat is back for lambs: we may have gone too far towards leaness, claims a senior scientist with AgResearch's animal genomics team, Tricia Johnson.

Food prices fell 0.5% in May 2016, following a 0.3% rise in April, Statistics New Zealand says.

An initiative selling fresh spring lamb into Countdown supermarkets has been kicked off by Helensville farmer Richard Kidd.

Sheep and beef farmers, especially in the South Island, are going to take a substantial hit in their incomes this year as lamb prices weaken.

It's official; the township of Oturehua produces the country's most tender and tasty lamb.

Alliance Group is now processing, packaging and exporting Pure South lamb directly to a Spanish supermarket retailer.

A North Island trial comparing the value of lambs sired by low versus high genetic merit rams validates that using genetic data does pay off.

Weak lamb prices are cutting into sheep and beef farmers' profits this season.

Federated Farmers meat and fibre chair Rick Powdrell is calling for action to be taken to address issues in the marketing of Kiwi lamb overseas.

Just when sheep farmers thought their meat returns could not get any worse some Alliance Group suppliers are about to find out they can.