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  • Resource book

    Extreme Dry Management toolkit

    The key message you will find repeated throughout this resource is: make decisions early.  This will minimise the impact of the extreme dry on your business and increase the likelihood of containing …
  • Video

    Canterbury: Kaiora Downs

    Owners Mark and Jane Schwass were commended for their strong emphasis on riparian planting and stock shelter, good fertiliser policy and dedication to protecting and enhancing native …

  • Genetic markers of drench resistance

    … Drench resistance is a growing challenge for sheep and beef farmers, complicating parasite … nematodes is a major concern for sheep and beef farmers, and drench resistance … sheep and cattle.  The proof-of-concept study will focus on: Trichostrongylus species: …
  • News

    Q&A with Northland farm intern Miya Wendt-Smith

    … and is enjoying living and working on a Sheep and beef farm at Whangārei Heads. …
    miya on horeseback
  • Factsheet

    Deferred grazing

    This project was initiated by hill country farmers that have used deferred grazing for more than a decade. They could see benefits for both the deferred pastures and for the rest of the farm and …
  • Page

    Parasite identification

    … ‘ T vitrinus’ .    Doing a larval culture on poo samples after a FEC can be useful to … all the important parasite species affecting sheep and cattle. This test can identify worms …
  • Factsheet

    Worms in refugia: A tool to delay drench resistance

    This fact sheet explains refugia and how it can be used to help delay drench resistance in internal parasites on your farm. Keeping a population (or refuge) of susceptible worms on the farm can slow …
  • News

    NZ an international outlier by allowing 100 percent of emissions offsetting through forestry

    … and forestry in other countries.  The study focuses on how other countries use … to slow the rapidly increasing amount of sheep and beef farmland being purchased for … planting of pine trees.” McIvor says sheep and beef farm purchases have risen from …
    afforestation

  • Economic reports

    … analysis and forecasts for farmers in the sheep and beef sectors. … reports on specific subjects related to the sheep and beef sector, including annual cost …
  • Video

    Craws: Optimal establishment method and seed mix

    … Annabel Craw run Longridge Agriculture, a sheep and cattle grazing business on Banks …