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Selective breeding gets tick on welfare issues
The National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC) is satisfied with both the sheep and beef industries’ approaches to breeding with respect to animal welfare issues.
NZ’s red meat story needs better storytelling
New Zealand's red meat sector must do a much better selling job when telling its story to customers – offshore and at home.
Share up or miss out!
Silver Fern Farms (SFF) is urging its non-shared farmer suppliers to become shareholders.
Returns aren't good enough
There have been negativities around farmers saying the sheep sector is declining.
Red tape stifling innovation
The pendulum may be swinging too far on regulation, so stifling innovation, Beef + Lamb NZ chairman James Parson suggests.
New water standards will cost farmers
Farmers are doing their bit to help the Government get 90% of lakes and rivers swimmable by 2040.
Brexit focus for Beef + Lamb NZ
“There is absolutely no question that Brexit is something we are focused on,” says Beef + Lamb NZ chairman James Parsons.
Growers unhappy with Waikato Regional Council
Farmers are disappointed by the Waikato Regional Council’s (WRC) ‘delaying tactics’ around a judicial review by six organisations over plans for the Healthy River Plan Change.
Forget all the negativity; communicate the positives!
Sheep and beef farmers are facing testing times and many of the challenges are outside their control.
Less maize compounds northern drought
Insufficient contract maize was grown this season, contributing to a feed shortage in drought conditions, says Federated Farmers Northland provincial president John Blackwell.
