New Zealand’s beef industry is booming with record prices being paid for weaners.

This buoyant market means that it is even more important that commercial breeders make informed decisions before investing in bulls this year.

Beef + Lamb New Zealand has a number of tools and resources to help farmers with their decision-making before and at sale day.

These include the Better Beef Breeding on-line learning module, Better Beef Breeding workshops — which are being held around the country over the next few weeks — and nProve Beef, a user-friendly online tool which will help farmers select the bulls — and breeders — that best meet their specific breeding objectives.

Included in nProve Beef are three beef selection indexes designed for New Zealand farming systems; NZ$Maternal, NZ$Terminal and NZ$BeefxDairy.…