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New Zealand is the largest exporter of farmed venison in the world. [40] In the 1970s and 80s there was a huge industry carrying out live deer recovery from forested areas of New Zealand. The deer are a pest animal that has a negative impact on the biodiversity of New Zealand. The deer-farm stock was bred from the recovered wild animals.
Since 1997, Beef + Lamb New Zealand Inc has promoted and managed the New Zealand Beef and Lamb Quality Mark. [3] [4] In 2010, the organisation change its name from Meat and Wool New Zealand to Beef + Lamb New Zealand Ltd to advertise its focus upon meat-production. [2] In 2014, B+LNZ Genetics was founded by Beef + Lamb New Zealand Ltd. [5] [6] [7]
Landcorp Farming Limited ("Landcorp") is a state-owned enterprise of the New Zealand government.Its brand name is Pāmu, the Māori language word for 'to farm'. Its core business is pastoral farming including dairy, sheep, beef and deer, as well as a foods business marketing milk and meat products globally under the Pāmu brand and as a supplier to other food processors.
Sheep numbers peaked in New Zealand in 1982 to 70 million, but have dropped to about 24.4 million as of June 2023. There are 16,000 sheep and beef farms in the country which has made the country the world's largest exporter of lambs, with 24 million finished lambs recorded every year. [1]
Dairy farming in New Zealand began during the early days of colonisation by Europeans. The New Zealand dairy industry is based almost exclusively on cattle , with a population of 4.92 million milking cows in the 2019–20 season. [ 1 ]
It is New Zealand's largest farm, at over 1,800 square kilometres (440,000 acres) [1] and supports the country's biggest herd of cattle. It also hosts government science programs, such as research into bovine tuberculosis and related research into possums. [2]
Silver Fern Farms Limited is a New Zealand multinational meat company. It is owned in equal partnership by Silver Fern Farms Co-op Ltd, a cooperative of 16,000 New Zealand sheep, cattle and deer farmers and Shanghai Maling Aquarius Ltd. The company is New Zealand's largest livestock processing and marketing company.
Wakanui is a locality in the Ashburton District, New Zealand. The area is rural and close to the sea. Historically it is known as a grain-producing area. It holds New Zealand's largest feedlot, where Wakanui Beef is produced through intensive farming.