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… … AgResearch Emerging Achiever Award winner:   Estee Browne Finalists: • Cara Doggett • Luke Foster … Rabobank People and Development Award winner:   Agri-Women’s Development Trust Finalists: •  Coadette Lowe •  NZ Rural Leadership Trust … … New Zealand Regional Leadership Award winner:   East Coast Rural Support Trust … Congratulations to all the winners and finalists at the 2022 Beef + Lamb New Zealand Awards held on Thursday 29 September at Napier War Memorial, celebrating the people and technologies that make New Zealand’s red meat sector world-leading. … See the full 2022 winner list and read the media …

… eight award categories.  … The Beef + Lamb New Zealand Awards celebrate the people, the innovation, the technologies, and farming systems that make New Zealand’s red meat industry world-leading.  … The B+LNZ Awards evolved out of the successful B+LNZ Sheep Industry Awards but now encompasses the whole red meat sector (sheep, beef and dairy beef). The eight award categories (four people focused, four business focused) are continually reviewed to ensure they align with B+LNZ’s strategy and goals and reflect changes in the red meat sector.  The awards are a platform from which we can tell our sector's story …

… paddocks for next year’s winter feed crop, think about how you can improve your management of critical source areas and waterways. Careful management is needed when winter grazing on steep slopes to reduce environmental losses. Exclude stock from waterways. Create an ungrazed buffer zone between the livestock and the waterway. Ideally, at least 5 metres, but this should increase with slope and soil instability. Check your regional councils’ rules and regulations because some have rules on buffer zones. Leave …

… that brought together partners from across the red meat sector to help our industry become more profitable, confident and productive. … The RMPP programme ended on 31 March 2021. About the programme Industry and Government partnered through the Primary Growth Partnership programme to invest in a $65 million initiative to develop, test and introduce new ideas, technology and ways of working. RMPP was made up of farmers via B+LNZ, six meat processing …

… The aim of this project was to evaluate different ways of communication for their reach, impact and associated behaviour change. Parasite management is important for every livestock farmer and this topic was used to help evaluate five different communication methods.  … The project used: analytics to assess … reversing drench resistance on their farms. To do this, the information needs to be communicated effectively and have the desired impact.  A variety of communication channels were used to provide information to farmers:    A …

… checks' or a more detailed faecal egg count reduction test. Management practices that improve nutrition to all animals and reduce larval intake by young stock, can reduce our dependence on drench – making resistance less of a threat. … generations slowly develop the ability to tolerate what once killed them. This adaptation gets written into their DNA and passed on to their offspring.   Their cousins who don’t adapt still get killed, leaving the drench survivors to breed with each other and increase in numbers.  Using drench over and over as your main way to manage parasites applies selection pressure. It …

… consent for winter grazing, applying for a deemed permitted activity notice or resource consent, a useful mapping tool and a list of useful links. Email: esconsents@es.govt.nz Phone Customer Services: 0800 76 88 45                 Deemed … For information on any upcoming workshops, whether you need a resource consent, managing your IWG, useful defintions, and FAQs. Email: customerservices@orc.govt.nz Environment Canterbury Intensive Winter Grazing Homepage Information on … permitted activities, applying for a resource consent, ECan's complaince approach, good management practices for IWG, and advice on where to find further information. Email: winter.grazing@ecan.govt.nz or phone Customer Services: 0800 324 …

… Facial Eczema (FE), is a disease of concern in New Zealand which is known to affect sheep, cattle, alpacas, goats, deer and llama. FE has been reported in New Zealand for over 100 years and is attributed to the ingestion of a toxin (sporidesmin A) produced by strains of the fungus Pseudopithomyces chartarum … base of some pasture swords. Breeding for increased tolerance to FE is the main tool used in New Zealand by breeders and commercial farmers in defense of this disease. The current test for determining FE tolerance is based on in-vivo …

… Beef + Lamb New Zealand (B+LNZ) and the Meat Industry Association (MIA) launched a comprehensive package of proposed policy changes ahead of the 2023 General Election. … The proposed changes were aimed at growing export revenues and increasing jobs. The manifesto spans five key areas – climate and environment policy, workforce and industrial relations, trade, biosecurity, and innovation, research and development. …

… B+LNZ Genetics was established in 2014 to consolidate New Zealand’s sheep and beef genetics research and innovation into a single entity as a division of B+LNZ. … B+LNZ Genetics exists to help commercial farmers make the … for their particular farm management system. It does this by ensuring breeding objectives are commercially focused and developing easy-to-use selection tools. … B+LNZ Genetics is funded by sheep and beef levy payers and the Ministry of …