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The eight farm classes … We provide accurate, independent information to help farmers, meat processors, consultants and other organisations with their planning. Below you’ll find data and tools you can use to make farming business decisions – from export statistics to economic reports to interactive tools. … What is "all classes"? The all classes distributions are weighted averages of individual farm class data to correctly portray a whole region or the New Zealand lambing percentage …

This is a five-year project to study the lifetime ewe efficiency. … This project has two aims: 1) To demonstrate that both single and twin ewe lambs born to ewe hoggets can be bred as ewe lambs and their lifetime performance is not compromised.  2) To determine if ewe lambs grown to heavy pre-mating weights achieve a heavier mature weight and any effect on ewe efficiency are discovered.  Background Mating ewe lambs is now an accepted practice for over 30% of farmers. Several flocks are …

Beef + Lamb New Zealand has a number of resources to help manage extremely dry weather conditions. While no one can make it rain, there are management strategies that farmers can put in place to protect the future performance of their capital breeding stock, such as early weaning, body condition scoring and feed budgets. Most importantly, farmers need to look after the well-being of themselves and their families. As well as making use of networks (friends, family and neighbours, rural …

Carbon sequestration in woody vegetation …