Continuing strong growth in Chinese demand for New Zealand beef is set support solid returns for the nation’s beef producers over the coming year.

New Zealand beef exports to China are booming, thanks to trade tensions and a disease outbreak in China’s pork industry.

A sudden drop in log prices which impacted the New Zealand commodity price index in July seems to have stabilised, says ANZ agriculture economist Susan Kilsby.

Meat consumption has dropped 20% in continental Europe and the UK in the last two-three months and it’s not all due to the summer heat, says the NZ red meat sector’s man in London, Jeff Grant.

The Dawkins family are Beef + Lamb New Zealand Innovation farmers working to maximise triplet lamb survival via an indoor lambing system now in its third year.

A rosy outlook on sheepmeat needs to be slightly tempered by market realities, one meat company suggests.

Primary sector leaders have come together to make an unprecedented commitment to reducing and mitigating agricultural emissions.

Sheep and beef farm input prices rose twice as fast as consumer price inflation in the year to March 2019, says Beef + Lamb New Zealand.

Sheep farmers are in for another year of solid returns, says ASB’s senior rural economist Nathan Penny.

Against the odds, exports of NZ’s primary produce have increased by $7.5 billion over the last two years and now stand at $45.7b for the year ended June 2019.