Head Shepherd

A great 30 minute discussion with Professor Wayne Pitchford of Adelaide University covering hybrid vigour, how he changed his views on feed-use efficiency based on his research on feed intake and the science behind the biological function of ewe and cow efficiency.

A big thank you to our sponsors, Allflex Livestock Intelligence 
https://www.allflex.global/nz/

Allflex Livestock Intelligence is the leader in design, development, manufacturing and delivery of animal monitoring, identification and traceability solutions. Their data-driven solutions are used by farmers to manage animals. By putting intelligent, actionable information into farmers’ hands, their solutions empower them to act in a timely manner for optimal outcome.

www.nextgenagri.com

Head Shepherd is brought to you by neXtgen Agri International Limited. 

We help livestock farmers get the most out of the genetics they farm with. Get in touch with us if you would like to hear more about how we can help you do what you do best: [email protected].

Thanks to our sponsors at MSD Animal Health and Allflex, Heiniger Australia and New Zealand, and ProWay Livestock Equipment. Please consider them when making product choices, as they are instrumental in enabling us to bring you this podcast each week.

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Nigel and Kate Kerin own and operate Kerin Agriculture, which comprises a trading enterprise as well as a Merino ram-breeding operation. Their focus is on turning grass into profit, with a highly flexible system that can optimise the class and number of stock for each season.  In this episode, we cover the principles that Nigel uses to manage the businesses, and the importance of external influences in turning good businesses into great businesses.

Find out more about Kerin Agriculture at www.kerinpoll.com.au.

Head Shepherd is brought to you by neXtgen Agri International Limited. 

We help livestock farmers get the most out of the genetics they farm with. Get in touch with us if you would like to hear more about how we can help you do what you do best: [email protected].

Thanks to our sponsors at MSD Animal Health and Allflex, Heiniger Australia and New Zealand, and ProWay Livestock Equipment. Please consider them when making product choices, as they are instrumental in enabling us to bring you this podcast each week.

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Willy Gallia is the part of the third generation in his family to be involved in the textile industry.  He grew up in Argentina and is very passionate about the wool industry and the people within it.  His family are heavily involved in wool production in Patagonia with Fuhrmann which is part of the Schneider group .  Willy is now the Chief Sustainability Officer with the Schneider group and is based in Italy.  Willy is charged with implementing the companies sustainability policies and frameworks. 

For more information on the farms in Argentina:
https://fuhrmann-argentina.com/

For more information about the Schneider group:
https://www.gschneider.com/

For more information about the Wool Connect conference.
https://woolconnect.gschneider.com/

A big thank you to our sponsors, Allflex Livestock Intelligence
https://www.allflex.global/nz/

Allflex Livestock Intelligence is the leader in design, development, manufacturing and delivery of animal monitoring, identification and traceability solutions. Their data-driven solutions are used by farmers to manage animals. By putting intelligent, actionable information into farmers’ hands, their solutions empower them to act in a timely manner for optimal outcome.

www.nextgenagri.com

Head Shepherd is brought to you by neXtgen Agri International Limited. 

We help livestock farmers get the most out of the genetics they farm with. Get in touch with us if you would like to hear more about how we can help you do what you do best: [email protected].

Thanks to our sponsors at MSD Animal Health and Allflex, Heiniger Australia and New Zealand, and ProWay Livestock Equipment. Please consider them when making product choices, as they are instrumental in enabling us to bring you this podcast each week.

Check out the MSD range HERE

Check out Allflex products HERE

Check out Heiniger's product range HERE

Check out ProWay's product range HERE

This week I had a conversation with Elisabeth van Delden that we are both sharing on our podcasts. Elisabeth provides support to wool businesses around the world to help them communicate effectively online.  Elisabeth was heavily involved in the Schneider Group's Wool Connect conference held earlier in the year.

Check out Elisabeth's podcast - Wool Academy
https://www.elisabethvandelden.com/wool-academy/
Check out Wool Connect
https://woolconnect.gschneider.com/

A big thank you to our sponsors, Allflex Livestock Intelligence
https://www.allflex.global/nz/

Allflex Livestock Intelligence is the leader in design, development, manufacturing and delivery of animal monitoring, identification and traceability solutions. Their data-driven solutions are used by farmers to manage animals. By putting intelligent, actionable information into farmers’ hands, their solutions empower them to act in a timely manner for optimal outcome.

www.nextgenagri.com

Head Shepherd is brought to you by neXtgen Agri International Limited. 

We help livestock farmers get the most out of the genetics they farm with. Get in touch with us if you would like to hear more about how we can help you do what you do best: [email protected].

Thanks to our sponsors at MSD Animal Health and Allflex, Heiniger Australia and New Zealand, and ProWay Livestock Equipment. Please consider them when making product choices, as they are instrumental in enabling us to bring you this podcast each week.

Check out the MSD range HERE

Check out Allflex products HERE

Check out Heiniger's product range HERE

Check out ProWay's product range HERE

Ken Solly has a lifelong passion for helping farmers be the best version of themselves that they can be.  This podcast contains some great tips from Ken as he reflects on a successful career making very real differences to farming families.  This is one not to miss.

A big thank you to our sponsors, Allflex Livestock Intelligence
https://www.allflex.global/nz/

Allflex Livestock Intelligence is the leader in design, development, manufacturing and delivery of animal monitoring, identification and traceability solutions. Their data-driven solutions are used by farmers to manage animals. By putting intelligent, actionable information into farmers’ hands, their solutions empower them to act in a timely manner for optimal outcome.

www.nextgenagri.com

Head Shepherd is brought to you by neXtgen Agri International Limited. 

We help livestock farmers get the most out of the genetics they farm with. Get in touch with us if you would like to hear more about how we can help you do what you do best: [email protected].

Thanks to our sponsors at MSD Animal Health and Allflex, Heiniger Australia and New Zealand, and ProWay Livestock Equipment. Please consider them when making product choices, as they are instrumental in enabling us to bring you this podcast each week.

Check out the MSD range HERE

Check out Allflex products HERE

Check out Heiniger's product range HERE

Check out ProWay's product range HERE

One of the privileges of our roles in neXtgen Agri is the opportunity to learn from the experience of others. Alistair Campbell is a passionate sheep and cattle breeder, high country advocate and a genuinely fantastic person.  I've had the pleasure of many evenings chatting with Alistair and thought that the world would like to hear from him too.  We cover a range of topics around breeding sheep and cattle and finish with his passion for car racing which really does prove that mindset is everything.

Earnscleugh Station is a large pastoral operation of 21,000 hectares (52,000 acres) based in Central Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand.

Earnscleugh produces over 100 tonnes of high quality Merino wool annually and also has three cattle and six Merino sheep pedigree stud operations involving over 6,000 individually recorded animals.

www.earnscleugh.co.nz

A big thank you to our sponsors, Allflex Livestock Intelligence 
https://www.allflex.global/nz/

Allflex Livestock Intelligence is the leader in design, development, manufacturing and delivery of animal monitoring, identification and traceability solutions. Their data-driven solutions are used by farmers to manage animals. By putting intelligent, actionable information into farmers’ hands, their solutions empower them to act in a timely manner for optimal outcome.

www.nextgenagri.com

Head Shepherd is brought to you by neXtgen Agri International Limited. 

We help livestock farmers get the most out of the genetics they farm with. Get in touch with us if you would like to hear more about how we can help you do what you do best: [email protected].

Thanks to our sponsors at MSD Animal Health and Allflex, Heiniger Australia and New Zealand, and ProWay Livestock Equipment. Please consider them when making product choices, as they are instrumental in enabling us to bring you this podcast each week.

Check out the MSD range HERE

Check out Allflex products HERE

Check out Heiniger's product range HERE

Check out ProWay's product range HERE

This week we are delighted to have Jo Scott on the show. Jo grew up on a farm in Otago, South Island, NZ. She has recently finished up after 7 years working with the Zoetis genetics.  She has recently started a genetics consulting business and is very passionate about the opportunity to optimise genetic gain across the beef, sheep and dairy industries.  We discuss a range of opportunities in genetics.
[email protected]
www.nextgenagri.com
@nextgenagri

If you want to touch base with Jo send her an email at [email protected]

If you are looking for information about the new NZ Angus indexes, follow this link. https://angusnz.com/cattle/technical/indexes-2/

A big thank you to our sponsors, Allflex Livestock Intelligence 
https://www.allflex.global/nz/

Allflex Livestock Intelligence is the leader in design, development, manufacturing and delivery of animal monitoring, identification and traceability solutions. Their data-driven solutions are used by farmers to manage animals. By putting intelligent, actionable information into farmers’ hands, their solutions empower them to act in a timely manner for optimal outcome.

Head Shepherd is brought to you by neXtgen Agri International Limited. 

We help livestock farmers get the most out of the genetics they farm with. Get in touch with us if you would like to hear more about how we can help you do what you do best: [email protected].

Thanks to our sponsors at MSD Animal Health and Allflex, Heiniger Australia and New Zealand, and ProWay Livestock Equipment. Please consider them when making product choices, as they are instrumental in enabling us to bring you this podcast each week.

Check out the MSD range HERE

Check out Allflex products HERE

Check out Heiniger's product range HERE

Check out ProWay's product range HERE

Welcome back to Head Shepherd. It is great to be back with Season 2. For the first episode of season 2 we have featured Will Gibson.  Will works with us here at neXtgen Agri as well as being heavily involved with his parents at Foulden Hill genetics.  In this episode Will covers his combined passions for breeding coloured Merinos, breeding Hereford cattle as well as helping the clients of neXtgen Agri to explore their own data and achieve great things with genetics.

We thank Allflex NZ for sponsoring this episode and the entire 2nd season of Head Shepherd.  
allflex.global/nz/

www.nextgenagri.com
members.nextgenagri.com
@FHGenetics

Head Shepherd is brought to you by neXtgen Agri International Limited. 

We help livestock farmers get the most out of the genetics they farm with. Get in touch with us if you would like to hear more about how we can help you do what you do best: [email protected].

Thanks to our sponsors at MSD Animal Health and Allflex, Heiniger Australia and New Zealand, and ProWay Livestock Equipment. Please consider them when making product choices, as they are instrumental in enabling us to bring you this podcast each week.

Check out the MSD range HERE

Check out Allflex products HERE

Check out Heiniger's product range HERE

Check out ProWay's product range HERE

This is the third part of this series. What exactly do you want to produce? What are the traits that you most want to improve?  How do you decrease the error in selecting rams and bulls?  This episode takes you through the decision making steps and the available tools to help you get the best genetics for your farming enterprise.  https://www.nextgenagri.com/on-farm-consulting
https://www.nextgenagri.com/online-courses
https://members.nextgenagri.com/access-plan

Head Shepherd is brought to you by neXtgen Agri International Limited. 

We help livestock farmers get the most out of the genetics they farm with. Get in touch with us if you would like to hear more about how we can help you do what you do best: [email protected].

Thanks to our sponsors at MSD Animal Health and Allflex, Heiniger Australia and New Zealand, and ProWay Livestock Equipment. Please consider them when making product choices, as they are instrumental in enabling us to bring you this podcast each week.

Check out the MSD range HERE

Check out Allflex products HERE

Check out Heiniger's product range HERE

Check out ProWay's product range HERE

This week I am joined by Dr Alison Van Eenennaam, Cooperative Extension Specialist in Animal Genomics and Biotechnology with the University of California, Davis.
Alison and her team have recently produced a gene edited calf that carries technology that could be applied to all terminal breeding lines at some point in the future.  We talk about the 5 year project to produce this one calf and we discuss all things gene editing. Alison is highly skilled at making complicated science sound logical and understandable.
https://www.nextgenagri.com/online-courses

Head Shepherd is brought to you by neXtgen Agri International Limited. 

We help livestock farmers get the most out of the genetics they farm with. Get in touch with us if you would like to hear more about how we can help you do what you do best: [email protected].

Thanks to our sponsors at MSD Animal Health and Allflex, Heiniger Australia and New Zealand, and ProWay Livestock Equipment. Please consider them when making product choices, as they are instrumental in enabling us to bring you this podcast each week.

Check out the MSD range HERE

Check out Allflex products HERE

Check out Heiniger's product range HERE

Check out ProWay's product range HERE