What’s in store for dairy during early 2024
Reading Time: 3 minutes By Cristina Alvarado. Alvarado leads the dairy data and insights team at NZX. As the curtain fell on 2023, New Zealand’s dairy industry found itself navigating a landscape of...
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Brisk bidding as dry bites on-farm lamb sales
Reading Time: 4 minutes By Annette Scott and Neal Wallace The dry kicked in back in December when just 12mm of rain fell for the month, making conditions difficult for Ashburton high country farmers...
View ArticleTemuka tops up spirits
Reading Time: 2 minutes Vendors met the market and were generally happy with the prices at the Temuka breeding ewe fair. “It was a good satisfactory sale on all accounts with vendors and purchasers...
View ArticleCorporate anthropologists hit Kiwi shores
Reading Time: 3 minutes Kiwi corporates are now turning to anthropologists to address systemic cultural issues in favour of business psychologists. Wool carpet manufacturer Bremworth is one of a...
View ArticleMaking room on the dairy shelf for alternatives
Reading Time: 3 minutes By Li Day, AgResearch’s food, fibre and international sector manager A flurry of recent media coverage about the progress of animal-free protein purports to raise doubts about...
View ArticleLand prices are still a political play ball
Reading Time: 2 minutes Government policy, not the lamb schedule, will dictate the final outcome of prices of hill country farms. Speaking about farm sales from July to November 2023, general manager...
View ArticleA correction for sure, but a solid result for ewe fairs
Reading Time: 3 minutes Early glances at the ewe fair scene usually focus on results in the North Island but in the past few weeks South Island fairs have been steadily ticked off. There have...
View ArticleRed meat returns down even as export volumes rise
Reading Time: 2 minutes New Zealand exported more red meat last year but returns fell 11%, reflecting soft global markets. Data from the Meat Industry Association shows the volume of sheepmeat exported...
View ArticleFonterra lifts forecast on back of global dairy rise
Reading Time: < 1 minute Fonterra has increased the midpoint of its forecast farmgate milk price by 30c a kilogram to $7.80 kg MS for this season, citing rising international prices. This increases...
View ArticleVenison returns buck up deer outlook
Reading Time: 3 minutes The venison market rounded out 2023 in a rather subdued fashion, but still majorly improved on previous years. Despite this, deer numbers are forecast to drop. Logistic issues...
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Patience is a virtue, even for El Niño
Reading Time: 3 minutes By Phil Duncan, WeatherWatch “All we need is just a little patience” – Guns N’ Roses from 1988. I’ve had this stuck in my head lately as I think back to the complaints last year...
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Reduced yarding at Dannevirke yields strong results
Reading Time: 2 minutes It was a beautiful day at the Dannevirke 15-month cattle fair on February 15, a stark contrast to the month before when a repeat of overcast conditions had made it seem like...
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High and dry for many as we go into March
Reading Time: 2 minutes It is incredibly dry around parts of New Zealand as we end February and cross into March. Often there is no sudden change to our pattern at this time of year though the mornings...
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Top Angus genetics feature in dispersal sales
Reading Time: 3 minutes Buyers will have great opportunities to go deep into proven Angus beef genetics during March and April when long-established North Island studs Atahua and Wairere have dispersal...
View ArticleStore lambs close out dry summer season
Reading Time: 3 minutes The current cold snap is just another reminder that autumn is here and so too the usually more profitable winter-trade season for lamb finishers. So how have the lambs fared in...
View ArticleNot so lucky new year for China lamb
Reading Time: 2 minutes The hoped-for boost to lamb prices from Chinese New Year celebrations has failed to materialise. Dave Courtney, the chief customer officer at Silver Fern Farms, described sales...
View ArticleAus lamb torrent shows no sign of slowing
Reading Time: 2 minutes There appears to be little reprieve in store for New Zealand sheepmeat exporters battered by record volumes of Australia sheepmeat, with the lucky country forecasting another...
View ArticleSurprisingly strong finish for dairy
Reading Time: 3 minutes By Cristina Alvarado, NZX commercial manager – data & insights As New Zealand finally sees a proper summer after the terrible floods many regions experienced around the same...
View ArticleGlobal outlook and marketing trends for dairy
Reading Time: 2 minutes Global milk production achieved a new record in 2022 with a 1.1% increase, but for the seventh year in a row there was a decline in the growth of dairy production in...
View ArticleFuture shock: modelling disasters for ag
Reading Time: 3 minutes A government think tank has outlined what it believes would be the impact on the New Zealand economy of two disaster scenarios for agricultural exporters. The Productivity...
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