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Thursday, 8 April 2021, 6:39 pm New Zealand Shearing Contractors Association president Mark Barrowcliffe may be the top boss in the industry but also runs a gang of some of the top up-and-coming talent as was shown at on the opening day of the New Zealand Shears in Te Kuiti today. Staff of the Piopio-based enterprise claimed the first two titles of the three-day championships, the Junior woolhandling final won by Rahera Kerr, 31, from Hauturu, and the Senior final by Azuredee Paku, 36, from Masterton. Both from inter-generational shearing families, they were unofficial pre-post favourites a...

Friday, 5 March 2021, 3:38 pm The national multibreeds shearing circuit finals, which looked to have become a non-event this year amid the cancellation of the Golden Shears in Masterton, will now be held at the New Zealand Shears in Te Kuiti next month. The move was announced today by circuit committee chairman Warren White, of Waimate, after agreement was reached with Golden Shears representatives and the New Zealand Shears which was able to consider the matter at its regular meeting this week. Shearing Sports New Zealand chairman Sir David Fagan congratulated the circuit organisers and Go...

PigProgress On demand: Webinar from feed to food Feed companies are part of a larger food chain, and an increasing number of safety and sustainability demands apply to them as well. How is this organised and how do the different parts of the chain communicate? Those were the ingredients of a webinar, held by All About Feed and GMP+ International, on February 3, which is now available for viewing on demand. Background of the theme ‘feed to food’ The webinar’s speakers were preceded by a short interview with Johan den Hartog, managing director of GMP+ Internation...

Chippenham and Chester Folk Festival Chippenham Folk Festival and Chester Folk Festival are joining forces online this year. "Geography is no longer a boundary, we can have a global reach, bringing communities together wherever they are in the world," it said. John Kirkpatrick, the patron of the festival said: “This is such an exciting idea - two great festivals pooling their resources to make one mighty weekend that can be enjoyed from anywhere in the world. It’s so impressive to see how resourceful and inventive the folk community can be to keep the music alive and kicking.”

Thursday, 28 January 2021, 7:48 am Some of New Zealand’s top shearers and woolhandlers will be heading back to school as private wool industry trainer Elite puts even the best through a time-honoured tradition of big-time prep-work ahead of this year’s Golden Shears. The high-performance pre-shears course on March 1-2 builds on a history started by the New Zealand Wool Board in the earliest days of the Golden Shears, which are to be held for the 61st time in Masterton’s War Memorial Stadium later in the same week, on March 4-6. Four-times Golden Shears Open shearing champion and 2017 W...