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… profitability and sustainability.  Working to solve industry-wide animal health issues like facial eczema and internal parasites.  Working on research into climate adaptation and mitigation and other environmental challenges.  Working with …

Beef + Lamb New Zealand is focused on providing significant return on investment for dairy farmers’ beef levies.   … The dairy, sheep and beef industries are closely linked, through activities such as:  non-replacement dairy calves in beef finishing  the provision of beef semen or bulls  grazing young stock  wintering dairy cows  providing feed.  Cull cows are a significant source of New Zealand’s exported beef.  Given these relationships B+LNZ continually looks at further opportunities for …

Crop types and worms … Does method of crop establishment matter? … Do crops have less worm larvae on them? What’s the best crop for low worm challenge? What if there’s lots of grass through my crop? Learn about worm challenge on different forage types, and approaches to managing worms and drench inputs while animals are grazing crops.  … Why crops?  Crops not only provide a less favourable habitat for worm larvae, but can also provide better nutrition, to grow young stock more quickly through …

Things that can affect FEC results … This topic is a bit of a minefield, and we can’t stress enough that faecal egg counts are a GUIDE to the number of worms inside animals. You must interpret them in light of all other information available! The TREND in FECs can often be as helpful as the absolute numbers. Repeat FEC monitoring of a mob of animals often gives better information than one count in isolation … I’ve got the FEC results – what do they mean?  The answer to this question usually …

Ballance Science & Research Award winner:   Lincoln University Dryland Pastures Research Group Finalists: • AgResearch Parasite Team • Strategic Winter Grazing Research Team … Datamars Livestock Technology Award winner:   Farmax Ltd Finalists: • Knode • Silver Fern Farms – Calf Booking App … Gallagher Innovative Farming Award winner:    Maatua Hou Ltd Finalists: • Mt Linton Station • Sam & Sarah Jonston … Silver Fern farms Market Leader Award:   Coastal Lamb Ltd Finalists: • Middlehurst …