01 July 2024
Steve and Wendy Skelton run a Jersey herd that’s currently in the top 1% in breeding worth, and top 3% in production worth, in New Zealand. And it’s been that way for many years.
25 June 2024
Callum Thomsen is a beef finisher who’s challenging the conventional approach.
14 May 2024
An elite Holstein Friesian bull, Farside M Illustrious S3F, has been inducted into the “Hall of Fame”.
09 May 2024
LIC has launched additional functionality into its MINDA® software, enabling collaboration with more industry partners to ease farmers’ compliance burden and save them time.
19 April 2024
Today marks 20 years since Livestock Improvement Corporation Limited (LIC) was listed on the New Zealand Stock Exchange (NZX).
11 April 2024
New data shows dairy farmers have achieved the highest six week in-calf rate and lowest not-in-calf rate on record.
05 March 2024
LIC has introduced a new breeding value to help combat bovine facial eczema – a distressing disease costing the New Zealand dairy sector at least $100 million annually in lost production.
21 February 2024
LIC has informed its farmer shareholders that the investigation into the semen quality issue that impacted 1,127 herds in October last year has concluded the possible cause to be a bacterial contamination.
13 February 2024
LIC to release new solution to help farmers fast track their herds' genetic gain.
24 January 2024
LIC financial results show New Zealand dairy farmers are still seeing value in cow efficiency.
19 December 2023
I’m often quizzed by farmers and breeders about what makes for a quality bull dam, says senior sire analyst Michele van der Aa.
15 December 2023
The popularity of LIC’s short gestation length semen has never been so high, says genetics product specialist James Mills.
