Media Releases
2001 | 2000
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Referendum
Results
1 September 2003 - Meat and wool referendum a resounding 'yes' on all
counts.
Referendum Results by
Region
1 September 2003 - Regional voting breakdowns for meat and wool referendum
Livestock at Start of Season
1 August 2003 - “Sheep numbers eased 1.0 per cent to 39.15 million
head in the year to 1 July 2003”
Tougher Season for Sheep &
Beef
4 July 2003 - “Sheep and Beef Farm businesses face a tougher 12
months for the season to 30 June 2004 than in the last 3 seasons."
Lambing percentage confirmed
17 April 2003 - New Zealand census information on lambs tailed confirms
the MWI economic Service lamb crop survey percentage figure of 119.2%
Sheep & Beef farm output
prices up 3.7%
13 March 2003 - Price paid for inputs on sheep and beef farms increased
3.7% between January 2002 and January 2003 according to MWI Economic Service
What
has Happened to the Queen of Pasture Quality?
March 2003 - Russell Priest - Meat & Wool Innovation Beef Genetics
Co-ordinator.
During late March, I was fortunate to be involved in the Angus and Hereford
breed herd tours around Hawkes Bay and Gisborne respectively.
Sheep
and Beef Farm Input Prices Up 3.7 Per Cent
13 March 2003 - Prices paid for inputs on sheep and beef
farms increased 3.7 per cent between January 2002 and January 2003.
Agents
back to school
18 Dec 2002 – “Stock and station agents are sharpening their
pencils to learn about beef genetics from Meat & Wool Innovation (MWI).
Sheep and
Beef Outlook Still Positive
27 Dec 2002 – “Sheep and Beef Farm profit for 2002-03 eases
from last season's peak due to lower prices for lamb, sheep, and cattle
production."
New record lambing
percentage
22 Nov 2002 – “The national lambing percentage reached a new
record of 124 per cent this spring”
Empty
those sheep out before shearing
12 Nov 2002 – Meat & Wool Innovation is tackling the slippery
problem of how long sheep should be kept off feed before shearing.
Pasture
Quality on the Mind
11 Oct 2002 – Important news from Meat New Zealand to all farmers;
pasture quality workshops are back.
Meat and Wool
Innovation now in business
30 Sept 2002 – Meat & Wool Innovation Limited, the enterprise
which will drive farmer-good services in the sheep, beef and goat industries,
is now in business.
Orphan lambs can be reared successfully
25 September 2002 – Lambs orphaned in the recent southerly blast
can be profitably reared on-farm, according to a research report released
today.
Beware the black
fibre
27 March 2002 – Farmers should take care when selecting replacement
ewes for their flocks not to increase the incidence of black fibre in
their wool clips, say wool exporters and WoolPro.
Premiums for quality-assured
Drysdale wool in the US
12 March 2002 – United States mills will pay premium prices for quality-assured
Drysdale wool, according to WoolPro and wool exporter H Dawson
Wool NZ Ltd.
Employer sold on
Modern Apprenticeships
28 January 2002 – Hastings-based shearing contractor, Kerry Brannigan,
is one employer who is sold on the Modern Apprenticeships scheme.
From Dannevirke to
Goose Green on a wool handler’s ticket
28 January 2002 – Lawrence farmer Sarah McTavish believes people
skills are the most valuable thing she got from her time as a wool handler.
New wasp in fight against
clover root weevil
25 January 2002 – Finding the right strain of a tiny wasp will be
the key to solving farmers’ problems with the clover root weevil,
say researchers.
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