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  • News

    Extreme weather creates testing time for farmers

    Will Halliday, Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s Senior Advisor Animal Welfare and Biosecurity, says flood affected farmers in the north will be dealing with infrastructure damage as well as silt damaged …
    flooding
  • Podcast

    Fine-tuning finishing performance in beef cattle: outcomes from B+LNZ Genetics’ Beef Progeny Test

    … role of 'subcutaneous fat', which is measured through rib fat depth, and 'intramuscular … scanning – and how effective they are at predicting marbling and rib fat depth within a … links Read more (and see the graphs referred to in this podcast) on the B+LNZ Genetics …
    image of Jason Archer and bulls
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    Animal genetics and worms

    … worm challenge. Both traits are being measured and selected by NZ sheep breeders – you … in resistant flocks arising from the lowered pasture contamination. Even non-resistant … parasite control in Australian Cattle on the Meat and Livestock Australia website . Further …

  • Zero Carbon Bill

    The consultation period for the Government's Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill – better known as the Zero Carbon Bill – has closed. There will be a transitional period to 2021 to …
  • Factsheet

    Managing Lice

    … issues associated lice infection which covered new zealands animal welfare act 1999 … decline summer transmission lice transferred very close contact between sheep within … dip advantage using more than one active reduce selection resistance use two actives …
  • Factsheet

    Carbon sequestration in woody vegetation

    … carbon dioxide removed from atmosphere stored short long term can done part biological … sequestration woody vegetation carbon stored woody bits plants rather than leaves … other schemes can also used support marketing meat products reasons however may only …
  • Factsheet

    Hill Country Futures: phosphorus requirements

    … than grasses fertiliser inputs required assist legume nearly all new zealand hill … dung areas where camp rest ruminate transfer reduces amount available plants given … maintain pasture production replacing removed meat wool production held soil transferred …
  • Video

    Beef + Lamb New Zealand Planning for Disruption Webinar – Part 1

    This section focuses on how you can build resilience and some key points and options to handle disruption. …
  • News

    Farmer advisory group explores sheep research

    Last week B+LNZ’s Farmer Research Advisory Group (FRAG), a group of Farmer Councillors tasked with ensuring B+LNZ research priorities have practical on-farm application, visited Ngapouri Research …
    image of Frag field day at Rotorua

  • Northland Regional Plan

    … working on a new Regional Plan as required under the National Policy Statement for … and work with tāngata whenua and the primary sector.  If you would like to learn more, see …