Helping Grow the Country for 175 Years

When Joe Blakiston reflects on more than 40 years with PGG Wrightson and its predecessor companies, there is one theme that comes up time and time again. "It's the people." Not the deals, the properties, the stock sales or the titles. For Joe, a career that has spanned some of the biggest changes in...

Mātai Pacific Iwi Collective has won the 2026 Ahuwhenua Trophy for Excellence in Māori Horticulture, the most prestigious award in Māori horticulture and one PGG Wrightson is proud to sponsor. The win was announced at the Ahuwhenua Awards dinner in Whangārei, in front of more than 700 people from...

Moving Day has officially finished for another year, with farmers, sharemilkers, contract milkers, and farm staff packing up their households, machinery, and livestock to relocate to new farms for the upcoming season. It’s also a busy time financially, with dairy cow herds changing ownership, Andrew...

Bulls, cull cows, two-year-old cattle, store lambs and dairy herds all changing hands as livestock markets ease into regular seasonal shift. Nationwide livestock markets are almost in winter mode. Although dry districts in some pockets of the South Island would benefit from rain, most farmers have...

Image credit to: Sentient Imagery Limited . New bidr option proves its worth, underpinning demand and reaching nationwide market at South Otago Simmental stud’s annual bull sale. A new format for bidr, an online helmsman auction, proved its worth at this year’s Beresford Simmental bull sale...

Multi-generational Te Awamutu butchery turns to PGG Wrightson to supply new operation producing pulled meat for nationwide distribution. A new opportunity has arisen for Waikato and King Country farmers producing Hereford cattle. A long-established local butcher has turned to PGG Wrightson to...