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Former All Black Kevin Schuler says diversifying the family farm with his brother Paul into three milking systems – cows, goats and sheep – is all about creating a better and stable business.

New Zealand beef and sheep farmers are facing more than 25% less income in the season ahead.

New Zealand farmers are the first in the world with the ability to breed low methane-emitting sheep.

Sheep milk company Maui Milk plans to have 60 milking farms within five years.

When 14-year-old Lincoln High School student Rosa Macaulay was asked to write story about her favourite room, instead of choosing her bedroom like most 14-year-old girls, she chose her grandfather’s sheep yards. 

OPINION: The biggest issue currently facing our industry is environmental policy, writes Beef+Lamb NZ chief executive Sam McIvor.

A jump in the value and volume of New Zealand’s sheepmeat exports to Europe and the UK shows why preserving WTO tariff-rate quotas is so important, claims the Meat Industry Association (MIA).

While lamb prices are starting the new season at around 16% below last year’s levels, they are not outright weak, according to the BNZ.

New research shows that New Zealand sheep and beef farms are already offsetting the majority of their agricultural emissions.

A one-size-fits-all vaccination programme does not suit different sheep systems, which all have different vaccine requirements.