Livestock

Top prices hover in the $11,000-$16,000 range.

Quick thinking needed to guide the balance sheet through weather and financial challenges.

Record numbers of cull dairy cows put through saleyard ahead of Moving Day.

Three farmers to be picked to take unconstrained rotational grazing to the next level.

Stats NZ trying to work out how it got livestock numbers so badly wrong.

Breeders set high standards with particularly good-looking crop so far.

Proof is in the elevated returns at the weekly Frankton sales.

Weak mutton and lamb prices are flowing through to low returns for breeding ewes and store lambs.

Clearance was the aim ahead of winter, and Lorneville delivered.

Sweet-tempered bull inducted into LIC Hall of Fame, 17,313 daughters later.

Fortnight of better pricing at auction draws thousands down from the hills.

Grassland the size of ‘15 Lake Taupōs’ lost to farming in just over a decade.

Prices lift across the board as buyers respond to the wide range on offer.

Lamb and weaner calf numbers are mounting on the islands as farmers itch to get a chance at mainland markets before the winter slowdown, though thankfully feed is not a problem.

Waikato auction of high-producing Holsteins does the girls proud.

After a week’s delay, day finds stock in magnificent form.

As the dry bit hard, South Island vendors found support and keen buyers across the strait for their crop of calves.

Wellsford mounts supplementary event to capitalise on excellent March results.

New Zealand Agricultural Show postpones 2024 public event after three tough years.

World-leading genetics in catalogue of cattle from both sides of the Tasman.

Anita Erskine becomes second woman to fill position in history of the association.

Reproduction improvements could create $130.7m in extra milk revenue.

Add vets to the Halter fan base for the system’s efficiencies and effect on animal welfare.

Longfords Estate in Rotorua hosts its second annual on-farm sale.

Change of legal advice sends liquidators haring after individual producers after failed cattle shipment.

A lack of feed has meant the demand for store lambs is almost non-existent, but bargains remain for those who can carry stock through winter.

Increase in cow volumes coincides with the annual beef calf sales, making for a busy week.

Top stations muster enough calves to warrant firing up the Wairoa yards.

A thriving grass market has translated into brisk trading at the first of the fairs, though the swift arrival of the dry may test this demand.

Opportunity for a cow and cattle sale in this space years in the making.

Ruapehu district’s community-owned facility not yet gone the way of so many NZ yards.

There’s a split in South Island cattle fortunes – the top half grinding to a halt as the dry bites, but good returns on flourishing pasture in Southland.

Having tried it out, Ohinewairua Station puts on-farm selling on the roster.

Long-established North Island studs Atahua and Wairere bringing heifers, cows and calves to market.

Agents baulk as live export fiasco takes an expensive turn.

Demand did its bit on a day when the supply side battled plentiful pastures and the popularity of on-farm sales.