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Terminal sires can be a great tool to increase lamb growth rates.

Massey University's agricultural students have responded well to online learning in the present Covid-19 environment.

Hogget breeding has the potential to improve farm productivity but they take careful management according to Professor Paul Kenyon of Massey University. Peter Burke reports.

Bioeconomic modelling, published by Massey University PhD student Lydia Farrell in 2020 and more recent work by the team, has shown that adding hogget breeding to a North Island hill country property would increase cash operating surplus.

People are starting to realise the true strength of agriculture in the New Zealand economy.

The Head of Massey’s School of Agriculture & Environment, Professor Paul Kenyon, says the direction the Government is heading on sustainability heralds the way that NZ will farm in the future.

Breeding hoggets at eight months of age can improve a ewe’s lifetime productivity.

Breeding hoggets at eight months of age can improve a ewe’s lifetime productivity.

Hogget breeding, done correctly, can increase the number of lambs weaned on a farm each year and their lifetime performance.

About 70% of farmers pregnancy scan their ewes which should occur between a minimum of 45 days after ram removal from the ewe flock and no later than 100 days after ram introduction.