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- Page… around the eye. This is much more accurate than trying to determine gum colour! FAMACHA is an ideal diagnostic tool for small sheep mobs where there is enough labour to individually inspect each animal By using FAMACHA, you can … year. Download FAMACHA Eye Anemia System guide (PDF, 178KB). Post mortems/total worm counts Post-mortems are a useful tool to determine the role of parasites in cases of poor body condition and performance of adult stock, especially ewes. …
- A B+LNZ Hub Farm is a small group learning initiative introduced into the extension programme as part of B+LNZ’s refreshed strategy. It follows a single farm business’s change journey over 2–3 years providing a venue for sharing learnings, and creating awareness of challenges and opportunities. … What is a Hub Farm? Hub farms follow a farm business journey helping the wider community of farmers to see change in real time, understand regional challenges and opportunities and implications in a …
- New Zealand’s country of origin beef and lamb marketing programme Taste Pure Nature was developed by B+LNZ and is now led by red meat processors and exporters. … About Taste Pure Nature Taste Pure Nature was developed in partnership with meat processors and farmers as part of B+LNZ’s Market Development programme and launched in 2019. It promoted the sustainability of New Zealand grass-fed beef and lamb to target groups of international consumers. Activity was undertaken in partnership …
- PageDung – particularly in water – is bad news. Faecal bacteria and pathogens can cause disease in people. Faecal contamination is monitored using E. coli (Escherichia coli) as an “indicator” organism. E. coli is a type of bacteria commonly found in the guts of warm-blooded mammals (including people) and birds. … Where does excess E. coli in our waterways come from? Common sources of E. coli bacteria include untreated human wastewater discharges, storm water run-off and animal waste. Faecal …
- Protecting New Zealand's iconic flora and fauna is integral to the future of farming and the Government is consulting on how it can protect New Zealand's native biosecurity. … Update 25 July 2022 The Government’s consultation on the exposure draft of the National Policy Statement for Indigenous Biodiversity has now closed. B+LNZ provided a joint submission with DINZ. Read our submission here (PDF, 928 KB). The supporting documents (a review of the SNA criteria by Element Environmental and the …
- 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 …
- PageBiodiversity refers to the variety of plant and animal life in a particular habitat. As a general rule - the more diversity, the healthier that environment. … Why is biodiversity important on farm? Biodiversity is a win-win – for you as a farmer and for your property’s ecosystem. Your production platform will produce more if your pasture is healthy, earthworms are active and insects and bees are busy. Most activities that promote biodiversity have other positive spin offs. For instance, …
- The aim of this study was to provide an understanding of introducing refugia into a lamb finishing operation that had a triple drench resistance issue. Refugia, introduced through lambs with susceptible parasites, was compared to the more conventional practice of quarantine drenching. … Background Resistance of parasites, or worms, to all classes of drench is a major concern in New Zealand farming systems. Intensive finishing and hogget grazing systems are at high risk of developing triple …
- PageCatch-crops increase the efficiency of the operation by retaining nitrogen in the root zone that farmers would otherwise have waved goodbye to. … Planting a catch crop is a way of reducing the risk of nitrate leaching after winter grazing, where there can be large amounts of residual soil nitrogen that is at risk of leaching. By planting another crop as soon as possible after your final grazing, you can capture those nutrients in the second crop and increase overall feed production from the …
- At Beef + Lamb New Zealand, we take your privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy sets out how we may collect, use, disclose and manage your personal information when you use this website. We respect your privacy and take steps to comply with the Privacy Act 2020. … Collection of your personal information During the course of dealing with you, we may collect basic personal information about you, such as your name, address and contact details. We may also collect other specific information from …