Red Meat

Imagine a breed of sheep that requires no dagging, shearing, vaccinations or dipping. It is highly fertile, lives a reproductive life of 15 years or more and puts all of its energy into producing...

Prices nearly matched last year’s buoyant figures at the Omarama lamb sale.

Beef exports to China continue to underpin New Zealand’s red meat export sales, which hit a record $9.1billion last year.

Silver Fern Farms has confirmed its mothballed Fairton plant and surrounding land is going to be sold.

Rothesay Deer owner Donald Greig has been building up the genetics of his English and composite deer operation for more than three decades.

Demand was strong at the annual Longlands Station store lamb sale at Kyeburn in Maniototo last week.

Foveran Deer Park’s 37th annual elite sire stag sale on January 11 attracted ‘‘a good gallery of buyers’’, stud manager Barry Gard said.

Weaning has been off to a late start for most in the South Island, Silver Fern Farms head of communications and sustainability manager Justin Courtney said last week.

The former Fishers Meats factory that provided 100 years of production is to be taken over by a Wellington-based company making plant-based meat on the premises.