If you are dealing with a tough spring, check out these links for some ideas that might be of use, and places to find help and advice.
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Contacts and Help
- Rural Support – your Southland team can be contacted on 0800 787 254 or visit the Southland Rural Support Trust webpage
- Rural Support – your Otago team can be contacted on 0800 787 254, or visit the Otago Rural Support Trust webpage
- National Rural Support Trust: Help and support for rural NZ (rural-support.org.nz)
- Coping with stress on the farm factsheet (PDF, 314KB)
- Farmstrong website – getting help
Please contact B+LNZ's resources team at [email protected] to request printed copies of resources.
Resources
- Tom Fraser: Tactics for Tight Times
- Peter Young: More Profit from Sheep
- Bouncing forward from a crisis, with Doug Avery
- Farming for more than just money – Steve Wyn-Harris
- Thinking outside the box: Jack Cocks & Joanne Stevenson on Resilience in the farming business
- Sow, Grow, Thrive: Navigating Tough Times- Financial strategies for the agri-sector
- Sow, Grow, Thrive: Paddock Stories– Bouncing back from tough times
- Adverse event management (PDF, 45KB).
- Supplementary Feed Guide (PDF, 69KB) – what’s in supplementary feed and what is it worth?
- Reviving newborn lambs (PDF, 178KB) – Dextrose can help revive your lambs. Need to know more – check out this B+LNZ Factsheet.
- FeedSmart User Guide (PDF, 805KB) - how to use the B+LNZ Feedsmart tool, to calculate feed demand and work out mini-feed budgets.
- FeedSmart tool www.feedsmart.co.nz.
- Excel and PDF templates – look under ‘Tools and Software’ on B+LNZ Feed planning page.
- Simple Feed Budget – email us for a copy, check out the User Guide: User guide- Simple Feed Budget.
- Feed planning page – B+LNZ’s webpage with our feed planning resources all in one place.
- Flood support resources.
Support services
- Beef + Lamb New Zealand: 0800 233 352
- Federated Farmers: 0800 327 646
- Ministry of Primary Industries: 0800 008 333
- DairyNZ: 0800 432 479
- Fonterra: 0800 656 568
- Rural Support: 0800 787 254
- Rural Woman NZ: 0800 256 467
Banks
- ASB: 0800 272 007
- BNZ: 0800 275 269
- ANZ: 0800 807 711
- Rabobank: 0800 722 622
- Westpac: 0800 177 155
Insurance companies
- FMG: 0800 366 466
- Tower: 0800 379 372
- Vero: 0800 800 134
- State: 0800 802 424
Local Councils
- Environment Southland: 0800 768 845
- Otago Regional Council: 0800 474 082