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iFarm has adjusted their lamb price outlook downwards again this month with dry conditions boosting kill numbers and overseas markets still subdued.
A small number of cattle yarded at Rangiuru yesterday were met with a good crowd of usual buyers from around the BOP and surrounding areas like the King Country and Waikato.
Store lamb prices at Canterbury Park once again eased as the expectation of schedule prices continuing to do the same is hitting vendors in the pocket.
Three-time Ballance Farm Environment Award winner Dan Steele is on a mission to make New Zealand a better place for the future.
Fonterra is joining forces with another home-grown New Zealand business to ensure the milk kids are drinking through the Fonterra Milk for Schools programme is perfectly chilled.
Dairy farmer cooperative, LIC, has recorded strong performance in the first six months of the financial year, with growth in farmer demand for products and services which have a direct impact on income generating production.
Feilding held its supplementary ewe fair with the store stock sale on Friday so the pens were full to over-flowing with close to 19,000 head on offer.
There is very little price support now for lamb prices at the farm-gate with meat company demand now waning as the Easter chilled trade draws to an end.
Farmgate prices for beef are heading south at present in both the North and the South Islands.
A Morrinsville farmer has been fined more than $33,000 for illegally discharging dairy effluent into the environment. The volume of effluent was such that cows' udders were dragging in it.
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Three upcoming Waikato SMASH (Smaller Milk and Supply Herds) events will tackle three thought-provoking topics – energy use, pasture persistence and robotic milking.
Judging gets underway this week in the 2013 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards.
DairyNZ says lower than normal soil moisture levels across the North Island, with the exception of Taranaki, means dairy farmers look at their options.
Fonterra Cooperative Ltd says its chief financial officer Jonathan Mason will retire in the next six months and has started an international search to replace him.
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