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Break-feeding cattle

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Break-feeding cattle

Cattle and sheep farming in New Zealand is based on grazing pastures. However, specialist crops are used for wintering and finishing some stock. This mob of young cattle is being break-fed on a forage crop.

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Robert Peden, Beef farming – Beef farming in New Zealand, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/17321/break-feeding-cattle (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Robert Peden, published 1 March 2009.