Displaying items by tag: sheep
Beef + Lamb NZ Genetics underway
BEEF + LAMB New Zealand (B+LNZ) Genetics is officially in business.
Sheep industry 'needs leadership'
NEW ZEALAND FACES risks to its environmental and economic future if issues facing the sheep meat industry are not resolved, says Environment Southland chairman Ali Timms.
NZVA extends Lepto programme to sheep, beef, deer
THE NEW Zealand Veterinary Association is extending its leptosure disease control programme to include sheep, beef cattle and deer.
Genetic growth potential underpinned by feed allowance
RECENT RESEARCH by a group of scientists, Dr Paul (Long) Cheng, Chris Logan, Professor Grant Edwards and Dr Huitong Zhou, from the Faculty of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Lincoln University, is helping to unravel a long-standing puzzle in the farming world.
Early scans can ID fat sheep
SELECTION OF breeding stock could be fine-tuned with fat and muscle scans as early as post weaning, new Australian research shows.
Sheep industry celebrates excellence
New Zealand's top ram breeders have been celebrated at the second annual Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) Sheep Industry Awards.
Alliance names new chairman
Murray Taggart has been appointed the new chairman of meat processor, Alliance Group Ltd.
Strategic grain leads to gains
WHAT WOULD 283% lambing do to fill the financial hole left by tumbling meat and wool prices?
Promotion winner pleased as punch
A SHEEP and beef farm manager from the Wellington region’s west coast has landed the top prize in Cooper’s Bumper Season promotion.
Half of sheep, beef farmers worried
Half of New Zealand's sheep and beef farmers are worried about their on-going viability, the latest quarterly 'Rabobank Rural Confidence Survey' has shown.
