http://www.nzfarmersweekly.co.nz/ Latest Content for Livestock en-nz http://www.country-wide.co.nz/image/country_wide_logo.gif Copyright 2007 The New Zealand Farmers Weekly http://www.nzfarmersweekly.co.nz/feed/ The New Zealand Farmers Weekly RSS Generator info@cplfirst.co.nz info@cplfirst.co.nz Perendales have proved a hardy breed on Patuki, replacing a "home-grown composite" that made up the flock five years ago. http://www.nzfarmersweekly.co.nz/article/12440.html info@cplfirst.co.nz 01-02-2011 Balancing sheep numbers with cattle helps reduce worms, with younger cattle also drenched as needed. Stocking the farm with about 35% cattle also controls the kikuyu grass that has a good hold on some of the hillsides. http://www.nzfarmersweekly.co.nz/article/12442.html info@cplfirst.co.nz 01-02-2011 Instead of selling bulls throughout the year as he used to do, Neil now sells all the heavier bulls in mid to late summer. This policy change has lowered the farm's winter liveweight loading from about 1600kg LW/ha to around 1200kg LW/ha. http://www.nzfarmersweekly.co.nz/article/12444.html info@cplfirst.co.nz 01-02-2011 Cull dairy cows could prove an economic and flexible alternative to beef cows on dryland hill country sheep and beef farms as long as they are managed correctly. http://www.nzfarmersweekly.co.nz/article/12447.html info@cplfirst.co.nz 01-02-2011 Roger and Jude Henderson are a great example of the health-giving properties of farm profitability. http://www.nzfarmersweekly.co.nz/article/12294.html info@cplfirst.co.nz 01-12-2010 Roger and Jude Henderson admit they had many sleepless nights deliberating over whether to change their irrigation system from border dykes to the centre-pivot, but in hindsight it was one the best decisions they have made, Roger says. http://www.nzfarmersweekly.co.nz/article/12295.html info@cplfirst.co.nz 01-12-2010 Cattle grazing and finishing has fitted in nicely with the Hendersons' annual grass-seed crops with 100 dairy heifers being wintered on a mini-techno system on ex-Crusader ryegrass seed paddocks. http://www.nzfarmersweekly.co.nz/article/12296.html info@cplfirst.co.nz 01-12-2010 Over the Monitor Farm period ewe numbers have dropped from 2356 to 1025 and the genetics have changed from Border Romneys to Kelsos and Rissington. http://www.nzfarmersweekly.co.nz/article/12297.html info@cplfirst.co.nz 01-12-2010 Their goals included lifting the EBIT of the property to $300,000 by 2009-2010, to grow the net wealth of the farming business through investments, to achieve at least three weeks' holiday a year, and to adopt a triple bottom-line approach to farming by 2007. http://www.nzfarmersweekly.co.nz/article/12298.html info@cplfirst.co.nz 01-12-2010 The battering meted out to southern farmers at the peak of lambing will have a significant financial impact on all but a few. http://www.nzfarmersweekly.co.nz/article/12299.html info@cplfirst.co.nz 01-12-2010