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  • News

    B+LNZ field day focuses on game-changing technologies

    Technologies such as virtual fences, drones and parasite-controlling fertiliser have the potential to be game-changers for sheep and beef farmers and were the focus of a recent Beef + Lamb New …
    image of Wairarapa field day with attendees on farm

  • B+LNZ Wormwise programme

    The B+LNZ Wormwise programme provides farmers with the latest knowledge and techniques to manage worms effectively and sustainably and minimise drench resistance issues. It also aims to lift …
  • Factsheet

    Drench and drench resistance

    drench resistance common increasing all drench families combinations poses risk viability some farming systems farm systems where stock policies management strategies reduce worm challenge also less …
  • News

    Docking drench typically unnecessary

    In a normal year, lambs do not require a drench at docking/tailing and a routine drench at this time may not be generating as much value as farmers might …
    image of staff docking sheep in the yards
  • Resource book

    Extreme Dry Management Toolkit

    … 8 8 8 8 9 minimise stress 9 internal parasites 9 pneumonia 9 trace elements … team 24 animal health welfare 25 internal parasites 25 flystrike 25 facial eczema 26 … avoided periods extreme temperature internal parasites extreme dry managing internal …

  • Genetic markers of drench resistance

    … or drenches, has led to a growing number of parasites becoming resistant, rendering some … may face unique challenges in managing these parasites, especially when resistance is …
  • News

    E-diary notices: 22 August 2025

    More GFF trainers needed, Wairarapa Livestock Parasite Management Group Field Day …
    image of B+LNZ CE at field days

  • B+LNZ Wormwise programme

    Wormwise does not contain recipes or programmes for drench use. These should be developed once you understand your farm’s resistance status, with help from a competent advisor. Worm management should …
  • Podcast

    Farmers talk about the ways they farm in the face of drench resistance

    We are joined by  Sam Johnston, Hamish Blundell and Mike Cranstone who each farm properties with triple drench resistance.  They tell us how it arose, what they are doing about it, and the progress …
    drenching ewes
  • Factsheet

    Drenchwise: do it once, do it right

    … drench choose all drenches work all internal parasites use right drench job faecal egg … weight can lead underdosing some internal parasites being killed increased chance … knowing which drenches work your internal parasites administering products properly …