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    Measuring pasture growth rates …
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    Catch the Rain working to increase drought resilience …
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    B+LNZ New Season Outlook highlights high values for sheep and beef but risk of headwinds on the horizon …
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    Tackling perennial farm production challenges …
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  • … throughout the farming year Ewe Body Condition Scoring This workshop demonstrates a quick, easy and low-cost management tool that compares sheep purely on condition. Better Beef Breeding This workshop helps commercial beef producers and …
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    Kiwis urged to support New Zealand’s sheep and beef farmers in new campaign …
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    Celebrating Rob Davison's 50th anniversary …
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  • We STILL need your sheep poo! Final season starting soon, register your interest to help us tackle FE together. As a thank you for your contribution you will get: A $40 subsidy on faecal egg counts tested by Awanui Veterinary. Each year, 25 randomly chosen farms will undergo monthly FEC (Faecal Egg Count) and larval culture testing from October to May. King Country – one of our youngest sheep collectors. Photo credit: Cathryn Peacocke. … Sign up here to receive free text messages with …
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    Drench resistance is evolution in action (remember Darwin?). Here we examine the risk factors for developing drench resistance on your farm. We also show you what you can do to assess your own situation. … 'Drench resistance' is present on a farm when there are a measurable number of worms surviving in the animals after treatment with anthelmintics. You can test for it with simple 'drench checks' or a more detailed faecal egg count reduction test. Management practices that improve nutrition to …
  • … adapt it to the various soil and climatic conditions. … Background The use of catch crops is recognised as a potential tool to help reduce farmers’ nitrate leaching losses but without good guidelines, the successful adoption of such … of catch crops into winter forage rotations can be both a practical and an economically viable farm management tool to help reduce nitrogen loss from winter forage grazing systems. Timely sowing (as early as possible) with the …