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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

Three weeks out from the 2017 World Shearing and Woolhandling Championships, organising Committee Chairman Tom Wilson is a happy man.

Matt Charlton is re-arranging the walls of the Barrelhouse Restaurant and Bar to accommodate yet another plate signifying the "Highest

The Tararua Sheep and Beef Farm Business of the Year has been launched for another year. Chairman Dan Billing and the committee

Three shearers attempting to break a world record in a Hawke's Bay woolshed next Tuesday will get an early start in an attempt to

The North Island at least appears bereft of sheep at a time of year travellers would expect to see them dotted around paddocks in

Three shearers tackling a World lambshearing record in the Central North Island today are comfortably ahead of the target pace at

A crowd packed into a King Country woolshed had to wait till the last moments of a 480-minutes day before seeing a world ewe-shearing

Nathan Stratford had been looking forward to sitting down and enjoying a beer over Christmas. But a successful campaign on the shearing

Trade barriers have cost New Zealand's beef sector up to $1 billion.

The last store sale for the year yesterday still could not attract store lambs in great numbers, with only just over 7000 offered

Falling beef and lamb exports - including a 50% decline in US beef exports - undermined New Zealand's trade balance, resulting in an unexpected $705million deficit for November.

The world's most decorated shearer looks forward to the World Shearing and Woolhandling Champs in Invercargill on February 8-11.

During the last 10 days, 30 sheep have been taken from a lifestyle block bordering SH3 immediately south of Whanganui. Whanganui

Steve Beere from Mint Restaurant in Napier has been named one of Beef and Lamb New Zealand's five ambassador chefs for 2017. He

Invercargill based Alliance Group says chefs and restaurants have offered favourable feedback on its new class of lamb.

Beef prices are likely to remain well above historical averages next year, despite continued global growth, Rabobank's latest beef

Dom catches up with writer Laura Morris for a chat about rural life and her plans for the Christmas season.

The cyclical nature of this Monday prime lamb sale that can confound some vendors was evident again yesterday when prime lamb prices

Rob Hastie and Dash finished with the second best run of the first day of the Tux Yarding Challenge in Kaitaia on Friday. The pair

Beef + Lamb New Zealand's Lamb Crop 2016 report says the average lambing percentage across the country was up 2.1 percentage points

The positive outlook for the dairy and horticulture sectors had kept overall confidence in the agricultural economy relatively high.

Whistle while you work is an old adage many sheep farmers may be clinging to as poor prices continue to dog the market. Independent

The Silver Fern Farms chairman celebrates banking the $267 million Shanghai Maling cheque and the completion of the 50:50 joint venture partnership.