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Integrating native biodiversity

Guidance on protecting and enhancing native biodiversity within farm systems. Last updated November 2025 …
News

Sheep and beef farm profit margins expected to fall a further 30 per cent this season

While the outlook is for global sheepmeat and beef demand to recover slightly, ongoing increases in farm costs are expected to reduce sheep and beef farmers’ incomes sharply for the second year in a …
11 October 2023
News

B+LNZ Mid-Season Update 2023–24 highlights how tough times are for farmers

Beef + Lamb New Zealand’s (B+LNZ) Mid-Season Update 2023–24 confirms that times are tough, and farmers will have to continue to dig deep to stem what looks like widespread cash losses in the sheep …
11 March 2024
Podcast

Tom Fraser: back to basics

… times’ advice, we talk about longer term farm management. …
Factsheet

Measuring pasture covers using a sward stick

… referred to as pasture cover in kilograms of dry matter per hectare (kgDM/ha). The tool is …
External resource

Biosecurity Planner – Protecting your business from pests and diseases

Biosecurity Planner – Protecting your business from pests and diseases …
Past research

Past research …
Resource book

Nutrition Process

Nutrition Process …
Factsheet

Caucasian Clover

This factsheet outlines how to establish and manage Caucasian clover over a range of environments for livestock, a food source for pollinating insects and erosion control. Last updated: September …
Resource book

Better beef breeding: bull buying for the commercial beef breeder

In a commercial beef herd, without cow recording, the bull contributes about 80% of the herd’s genetic improvement. Learn more about buying the right bull. Last updated July …