Beef + Lamb New Zealand Genetics

The New Zealand government through its Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE) has committed $15 million over the next five years, to accelerate genetic progress in New Zealand sheep and cattle.

Beef + Lamb New Zealand Genetics has been established to carry out this work. It will bring together the existing sheep and beef genetics research and innovation by consolidating Sheep Improvement Limited (SIL), the Beef + Lamb New Zealand Central Progeny Test and Ovita.

The new entity will allow Beef + Lamb New Zealand to continue providing world-leading genetic technologies that assist breeders to produce fit-for-purpose sheep and cattle to meet the future needs of New Zealand farmers.