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Livestock researchers around the world can now remotely detect ryegrass staggers in sheep using on-animal sensors.

Late autumn is an ideal time to do a feed budget to help meet livestock performance targets and set up pastures for spring.

Despite the potential advantages of mating hoggets nationally, only about one third of these young ewes are put to the ram each year.

Gordon Levet is a Northland sheep farmer and ram breeder who has spent a lifetime breeding sheep for worm resistance and facial eczema (FE) tolerance. He began breeding for worm resistance in 1987, recognising that there was a genetic component to a sheep's ability to tolerate worms and this has shaped his thinking on the issue...

"Breeders working for breeders" is how Taranaki farmer Wayne Taylor describes a joint sire-proving venture between Holstein Friesian NZ and CRV.

A pair of Massey University students have developed game-changing technology that helps dairy farmers monitor their cow health remotely.

Livestock farmers are being urged to plan ahead for possible meat processing disruption due to Covid-19.

Whether your pastures are starting to open up due to insect pressure, hard grazing or dry conditions, undersowing into existing pasture is a cost-effective method, according to Agricom product development manager, Allister Moorhead.

Johne's Disease is a chronic, contagious and sometimes fatal infection of cattle, sheep, deer and goats.

Conditions are ripe for facial eczema to become a problem for dairy farmers in the coming weeks, says James Allen, AgFirst.