Farmer's Patch

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14 May 2024
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Over the Farm Gate
Livestock

Staff Profile - Russell Moloney - From news to ewes

Russell Moloney’s career took a dramatic shift a few years ago, though he reckons it was a logical one, and he hasn’t looked back. From standing in front of a camera with a microphone, to standing in a pen with a mob of hoggets might seem an unusual career shift, though it’s a path that has worked...

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14 May 2024
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Over the Farm Gate
Livestock

Ensuring a genetics programme maximises revenue from stud purchases

Long term relationship to identify appropriate bloodstock guiding bull and ram selections for large King Country sheep and beef enterprise. Farmers increasingly recognise the need for a sound and factually based genetics programme to underpin their stud purchases and maximise revenue. Callum Stewart...

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14 May 2024
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Over the Farm Gate
Livestock

Momentous deer career coming to an end

After 50 years in livestock, including 41 with PGG Wrightson, and recognition in 2022 for his contribution to the industry, Ron Schroeder calls it a day. Ron Schroeder loves deer. He farms them, sells them, purchases them, hunts them, dreams them, eats them. “Ron looks like a deer, and even roars...

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14 May 2024
Categories
Over the Farm Gate
Livestock

Staff Profile - Russell Moloney - From news to ewes

Russell Moloney’s career took a dramatic shift a few years ago, though he reckons it was a logical one, and he hasn’t looked back. From standing in front of a camera with a microphone, to standing in a pen with a mob of hoggets might seem an unusual career shift, though it’s a path that has worked...

Video or image
14 May 2024
Categories
Over the Farm Gate
Livestock

Ensuring a genetics programme maximises revenue from stud purchases

Long term relationship to identify appropriate bloodstock guiding bull and ram selections for large King Country sheep and beef enterprise. Farmers increasingly recognise the need for a sound and factually based genetics programme to underpin their stud purchases and maximise revenue. Callum Stewart...

Video or image
14 May 2024
Categories
Over the Farm Gate
Livestock

Momentous deer career coming to an end

After 50 years in livestock, including 41 with PGG Wrightson, and recognition in 2022 for his contribution to the industry, Ron Schroeder calls it a day. Ron Schroeder loves deer. He farms them, sells them, purchases them, hunts them, dreams them, eats them. “Ron looks like a deer, and even roars...

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