If your business is growing animals for profit, buying and selling stock is a core activity.
We know that 'price' is not everything, but getting a good, fair price is an important outcome. Many issues go into a decision. After the intensive work and expertise that you apply to prepare animals to a demanding market specification, you need to be sure the price you receive is a fair one at the time.
Our goal is to bring together key price information in a way that is easy to use and to access. The processors, agents, and stock companies have this information, and we are now bringing it together so that farm management can know what they know.
We are publishers with on-farm experience. This service has grown from a practical frustration. Until now, it has been easy to search the web for price comparatives in many areas, but not animal prices. True, generalised averages are tracked and reported, but this is the only place where the price offerings of specific buyers are displayed and compared. From our pages, you can make a short-list of companies you can call, targeted to optimising your returns.
We assume our readers are professional farmers. As such, they will know how to read and interpret published prices, and the additional components that must be added or deducted from the offer price before a net return can be assessed. The basis of offer is often different between buyers, and often different between the North Island and the South Island. This site does not attempt to reconcile these differences. Rather we are offering a starting point - what the buyers offer, and what was achieved at the saleyards we monitor. Prices displayed on this site are not necessarily consistent between the sources. A professional and experienced farmer will know how to reconcile these differences for their circumstance. There may be some notes dealing with levies, charges, surcharges, etc on our pages but we make no representation they are complete. We do invite your suggestions on how to extend these notes to be of better practical help to readers.
Agridata Limited specialises in publishing market data you can use. This website is one of our services. We are associated with JDJL Limited who publish interest rate information in Australia and New Zealand and a unique way to compare political policy in New Zealand.
If you have current data you would like included in this site, or ideas for additional coverage, please contact us.