Category Archives: sheep dairy farmers
In the future questions can be answered (but not today)
The coaches have made their choices, the plane and hotels are booked, the oppositions scrutinized and the play sheets devised, learnt and eaten for breakfast. The pundits are weighing the odds, the analysts are comparing numbers, the families have crossed their … Continue reading
National Fieldays_sheepdairy
National Fieldays 2015 was a fascinating first outing for Sheep Dairying.This year we were part of the Massey stand (PE50) and thus went with Massey’s ‘More Productive Sheep’ and FoodHQ backdrop. A photo of the site (with out the crowds … Continue reading
A look inside big scale Ewe Dairying – Waituhi-Kuratau Trust (Taupo)
The Maori TV programme ‘Kai Time on the Road’ did a fantastic job recently of profiling the Waituhi Kuratau Trust’s 3000 head Sheep Dairy operation. Particularly it introduces the trust’s ‘Hipi’ yoghurt and showed their sheep milk freezing operation (they … Continue reading
Is Lifestyle block Sprawl a Ewe Can Dairy Opportunity?
I personally want to see Jiang Zhaobai’s application to the Overseas Investment Office to buy Lockinver Station tossed out, and the property sold to a NZ domiciled and preferably farming-based investor. But what can we learn from this tussle over land between … Continue reading