13 January 2022
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3 min read
Cost and carbon footprint have driven a Devon family to reduce the number of replacements reared. The facts that it costs nearly 2,000 to rear a replacement heifer to calving and that unproductive animals...
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Opportunities for achieving marketplace popularity can be limited for a small beef herd, but it has not stopped the McIlwaine family from achieving some notable successes to date.
15 October 2025
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7 min read
Jim Bloom, who has died aged 91, spent a lifetime in the livestock, food and farming industry
14 October 2025
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2 min read
A young Taranaki-based couple have made the leap to farm in their own right. Ellie Layton hears what next-generation farming looks like in the Southern Hemisphere
13 October 2025
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6 min read
