The growth of on-farm sheep-farming production matches dairying, but Deloitte partner Alasdair MacLeod says there is still room for improvement, especially among those outside the top 20% of performing farmers.
There will be countless hours of debate and numerous meetings in draughty country halls before the viability of the red meat sector is turned around, but farmers can initiate some change now, according to the authors of the latest report looking at its problems.
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Stock agents are furious their role sourcing and managing the flow of livestock from farms to markets is being questioned in a red meat industry strategy.
Gains conservatively estimated at $360 million over five years have been identified from the first phase of a two-phase strategy aimed at making the red-meat sector more profitable and sustainable.
Farmers need to accept a national animal identification scheme will be operating from later this year and start preparing, say those charged with its implementation.
The rebuilding of storm-decimated ewe flocks could be hampered by competing record mutton prices which are returning $100-plus a ewe to farmers - similar prices to prime lambs.
Meat co-operative Alliance Group says it is responding to customer requests by introducing a system for farmers to calculate their carbon footprint.
Once again, debate over the structure of a key farm export is ripping the sheep industry apart, yet the perilous start of the wool industry appears insufficient to unite farmers and drive change to a sector that is in decline. Agribusiness editor Neal Wallace asks why.
The way farmers sell livestock and the market behaviour of meat exporters have been identified in a new report as two areas hindering the performance of the red meat sector.
The pay cheques of the country's 22,000 meat workers will be thousands of dollars lighter this year with their seasonal jobs likely to be cut short by up to seven weeks because of falling sheep numbers.
David Douglas hopes a group of United States innovators can do for wool what they did for LCD flat-screen television producer Samsung.
Virtually all the money given by companies to help farmers hit by September's storm could be offered back to the donors.
Store lamb prices have not reached the high levels some may have expected, with one stock agent describing them as fair to vendor and buyer.
News the Government is putting $17.25 million into a wool research consortium is being hailed as the start of a new era in wool science.
Wool Partners Co-operative expects to be profitable after its first year of trading, according to forecasts released in its revised prospectus.
A second candidate standing for the board of meat company Silver Fern Farms has expressed concern it has moved away from co-operative principles.
Flooding in Australia and storms in the United States have combined to push beef prices to record levels.
Fledgling wool company Wool Partners Co-operative is interested in the 44% stake in a competing wool processor and exporter held by interests associated with Allan Hubbard and which is in receivership.
Elders Primary Wool says it is benefiting from ongoing squabbling between wool exporters and those trying to establish a wool exporter and marketing co-operative for strong wool.
