“The Kaharau Angus bull sale complex is theatre and efficiency, all in one,” writes Tim Fulton in one of three chapters about farmers from this region in his bo...
The Tairawhiti-Gisborne Young Grower 2021 event will take place again this year and organisers are keen to hear from potential contestants.
The event will be he...
Rural personality and farming advocate Craig “Wiggy” Wiggins was last night announced as the 35th winner of the Ravensdown Agricultural Communicator of the Yea...
Next week's Beef and Lamb NZ's Genetics Sheep Breeder forum in Napier brings together breeders, scientists and industry professionals from across New Zealand.
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BEEF and Lamb New Zealand chief executive Sam McIvor and local director George Tatham will be in Gisborne next week when the organisation's annual roadshow come...
THE Climate Change Commission's advice last week that New Zealand must cut gross carbon dioxide emissions was encouraging, but still far too many exotic trees w...
LAMB
For the past four weeks, North Island 32-34kg ewe lamb prices have held at $3.75/kg. This is the highest price for this time of year over the past five yea...
by Nicky Barton (WorkSafe NZ)
THIS profile is part of a seven-part series from WorkSafe New Zealand sharing the health and safety approaches taken by the g...
The Powdrell family at Turiroa Angus near Wairoa bred the top priced rising two-year-old bull in the country last sales season.
Turiroa Ragnar as he’s now know...
by Trevor Brown
STORE lamb prices lifted by $9 per head to $124 at yesterday’s Matawhero sheep sale and many of these were smaller, longer term, ewe lambs.
Ther...
THE first of the region’s Hereford cattle studs, Hain Herefords at Pehiri, got 19 of their rising two-year-old bulls away to new homes on Tuesday at auction in ...
The countdown has begun to the annual East Coast Angus Bull Week, which runs from June 28-30.
There will be more than 380 head to choose from across the three ...
LAMB
UK and Ireland lamb prices are booming in response to a low supply of lambs. In the year to 15 May, Ireland has processed 754,900 lambs, 6 percent less tha...
THE region’s bull sales season got under way this week with sales by Kerrah Simmentals on Tangiwai Station near Whakaki and Gold Creek Simmentals at Otoko.
Gold...
A week from now Angus stud breeders across the region will have presented their rising two-year-old bulls for the season (380 of them) and no doubt they will ha...
THE average price paid for store lambs continued to rise yesterday at the weekly Matawhero saleyards, up to $129 from $124 the previous week.
There were 1243 s...
New Zealand's red meat sector believes the UK-Australia Free Trade Agreement sets a benchmark for New Zealand negotiations, according to the Meat Industry Assoc...
As neighbouring New South Wales announces an ambitious plan to cut all single-use plastics by 2025, Kihikihi farmers Ross and Carol Turner are bearing the cost ...
FIELDAYS might not be the usual destination for the foodie thrill seekers out there but this year's iconic agricultural event, which begins today, will showcase...
by Toby Williams (Gisborne-Wairoa Federated Farmers president)
There is a representation review currently being conducted by the Gisborne District Council ...
COMMENT by Marcus Musson, Director of Forest 360, NZ Herald
Another month, another set of record export prices.
June has seen A-grade export logs increase ...
THE New Zealand Forest Service has opened up its 2022 ‘Nga Karahipi Uru Rakau’ forestry scholarships applications and this year there will be nine successful ap...
THE New Zealand Forest Service has opened up its 2022 ‘Nga Karahipi Uru Rakau' forestry scholarships applications and this year there will be nine successful ap...
This photo of LMJ P/S (Ruatoria), capital stock, mixed aged ewes, sold for $170 at Friday's Matawhero sheep sale. There were 219 in this pen, they had good mou...
Hundreds of beekeepers and others from the apiculture industry will gather in Rotorua next month.
For the first time in two years, Apiculture New Zealand’s annu...
offers chance to have voice heard
BEEF and Lamb New Zealand is holding a series of “Referendum Roadshows” around the country and the Gisborne event will be held...