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Barrie Ridler on unprofitable farming
What price is required for beef and lamb to achieve sustainable farming for New Zealand sheep and beef farm in 2008/2009?
Don Organ on deer farming
Don talks about the deer farming industry in New Zealand crashing.
Averages and Benchmarks
There has been a surge in the monitoring effort on many farms over the past decade. Although most of these measurements are not highly accurate (pasture growth rates; animal live-weight gains; liveweight or carcass weight per hectare) these data are seized upon to produce various efficiency ratios to justify often major changes in management. Worse [...]
Sheep farm systems - optimal lambing for profitable agriculture
Defining Optimal Lambing Percentages.
Do higher lambing percentages result in higher profits and if not, what is the optimal percent?
What are the factors in lambing% that result in less despite more?
Farmers are routinely being told to improve their performance in order to survive; the main theme appears to be one of increased production and often of [...]
