Story: Beef farming

More links and websites

• Beef New Zealand

  The Beef New Zealand website has information on recent research, articles of interest, and statistical information about beef farming in New Zealand.

• lsb: helping one another

  This site has information on all types of farming, including raising, managing and marketing beef cattle, for people with little farming experience.

• Beef and Lamb New Zealand

  Beef and Lamb New Zealand is a farmer-owned organisation representing farmers. Their site has articles about the management of livestock, including beef cattle, and about marketing and market trends.

• New Zealand rare breeds

  The website of the Rare Breeds Conservation Society of New Zealand has information on the history of beef cattle breeds imported into New Zealand, many of which are no longer farmed commercially.

More suggestions and sources

• Meadows, Graham. The New Zealand guide to cattle breeds. Auckland: Reed, 1996.
• Smeaton, D. C., ed. Profitable beef production: a guide to beef production in New Zealand. Auckland: New Zealand Beef Council, 2003.