Sheep and beef farmers are being encouraged to tell positive stories of rural life to help counter challenging times they have faced

The exotic sheep sale at Brian Hales' Wimbledon farm this Sunday has attracted many outside entries of rare and exotic breeds. These

It might still be early days but Silver Fern Farms chief executive Dean Hamilton is confident of an improved financial performance

The 2016-17 season average lamb price is shaping up to be a bit over $5, economists predict. While that was not quite as low as previously

This prime sale for sheep is feeding off its own success with an entry approaching 5,000 lambs selling to virtually steady demand

Ohakune's "hamburgeria" The Blind Finch has won a New Zealand Regional Lamb and Beef Excellence Award. It also has been granted a

The CEO of Beef and Lamb New Zealand previews National Lamb Day on Wednesday, when we celebrate the 135th anniversary of the birth of our export meat industry.

It might sound like something straight out of the 2006 horror comedy Black Sheep, but woolly mutants are leading our scientists toward intriguing discoveries - and innovative new products.

All but four sheep sold at the national black and coloured sheep sale in Waimate on Saturday. The audience included a Nelson contingent

Unprecedented levels of wool withdrawn or passed from the market resulted in the smallest offering South Island wool brokers have

The February 1 sale had a good selection of two-year-old cattle which sold well to a solid buying bench. Three-year-old white face

If the uncertainty around Brexit last year wasn't enough, we now enter the unknown with United States President Trump now carrying

Prices were good at the combined Dannevirke/Pahiatua ewe and ram fair last Thursday, auctioneer Bjorn Anderson said. "The sale went

Changes through amalgamation of some of the smaller stock classes to make them more competitive and to help with judging will affect

The chief executive of the Meat Industry Association comments on the declining export returns for meat.

Labour's Primary Industry Spokesman says the New Zealand meat industry needs to get off its backside and look for the upside.

The build-up to the 2017 World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships begins in earnest this week.

Last year's Dannevirke's A&P Show shearing featured several international shearers who pushed the New Zealand contingent, one making

The Country's Jamie Mackay reckons the Aussies have the right idea. Today is Australia Day and across the lucky country Aussies

Not-so woolly thinking has gone into developing technology touted as having the ability to improve global health. Auckland-based

Yesterday's Feilding Prime Stock Sale was unusually small, even by short week standards, with just over 1000 each of lambs and ewes

The weather at present is certainly at the top of farmers' problems. Usually the dry comes later in autumn but it started very early

Relatively tight lamb supplies, particularly from New Zealand, are helping to underpin in-market lamb prices. New Zealand's lamb

A much more manageable lamb yarding at last week's Feilding Prime Stock Sale - around half the number of last week - allowed for a

Joel Henare and Nathan Stratford both went back-to-back with competition wins over the weekend, gearing up for the World Shearing Champs.

The number of sheep in New Zealand fell by 1.5 million in the year to June, Statistics New Zealand said today. The drop of just over

Our Australian correspondent talks about the controversy surrounding the Australia Day lamb promotion.

An on-farm grazing trial has shown Whangarei beef farmers James and Kate Donaldson that rotational grazing on vulnerable soils has

Three shearers from different corners of the country have smashed a world shearing record - 1611 strongwool ewes between them in just eight hours. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

The lowest farmer confidence in the sheep and beef sector has been recorded in the southern South Island. The latest quarterly report