Ian Evans farms a 390ha hill country sheep and beef farm at Matahuru in Northern Waikato alongside his wife Kirsten and children Connor and Lucy. He recently joined the Mid Northern North Island Farmer Council and has a strong passion for the agricultural sector and its future prosperity. Ian shares his insights into the importance of having a good team around you – officially and unofficially.
This year can be chalked up as another of those ‘character building’ seasons. If the drought wasn’t enough, then COVID-19 gave farmers additional challenges to negotiate. Those that have experienced droughts in the past know how important it is to try and limit the financial impact to a shorter timeframe as possible. Te Kuiti-based ANZ Agri Manager Sian Mitchell provides some timely financial planning advice.
Good farm business planning is critical in helping sheep and beef farmers increase productivity and profitability.
When it comes to improving your farm business profitability, the more information you have, the better.
The Red Meat Profit Partnership, of which Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) is a partner, has developed an online business planning tool - BizPlan.
A new resource designed to help farmers measure their farm business performance has been launched by the Red Meat Profit Partnership (RMPP).
If clover is gold then the application of agrichemicals to poor-quality hill country pastures could be considered alchemy.
A 33,000ha Paraguayan beef operation is far removed from New Zealand’s more modestly proportioned beef farms but farmers in both countries face similar internal and external challenges.
For farmers Angus and Peter McCraith, Northland’s Extension 350 programme is providing invaluable contact with like-minded farmers.
International collaboration is behind New Zealand’s latest leap in maternal sheep breeding technology.
The new season outlook for 2017-2018 has been released, with information on economic conditions, exports, climatic conditions, and regional farm revenues, expenditure and profits.
Ask for their standard index figure: one number that’s comparable across all rams, regardless of breed. The higher the number, the better the ram.
