Helping grow the country

Turning around a slow start, the pick up in dairy livestock transactions through late summer and autumn shows sector confidence is returning. After a late start the dairy livestock sale season indicates the sector is rebounding. PGG Wrightson Livestock National Dairy Specialist Jamie Cunninghame...

Farmers looking to move stock on sooner than usual has been the major influence on South Island sales of calves and store lambs. Calf and store lamb sales have predominated in the South Island livestock market through late autumn. In both categories widespread dry conditions pushed some to sell...

A big day on the dairy farming calendar is coming up next month, so many Kiwi farmers will be in full swing getting readt, PGG Wrightson’s National Dairy Specialist Jamie Cunningham says. Moving Day, which takes place on June 1, marks the start of the dairy season. It’s when dairy farming families...

PGG Wrightson (PGW) is partnering with A Lighter Touch to support growers in moving to more sustainable crop protection programmes. A Lighter Touch is a $27 million industry and government partnership which is co-funded by the Ministry for Primary Industries, 15 product group partners and three crop...

The wool market has shown some stability this year, with certain types of wool reaching near three-year highs, but there's still plenty of room for improvement. Understanding the challenges the industry faced due to the limited wool scouring capacity after Cyclone Gabrielle's damage 15 months ago is...

Taihape’s new ambulance station has been many years in the making, 16 in fact, and thanks to a huge community effort, it was officially ‘open for business’ in February - finally moving on from the 1920s rented bungalow it had been operating out of up until that point. Much of the project was funded...