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METABOLIC DISEASES are complex disorders that occur when the cow’s ability to adjust to a major change (e.g. calving) is compromised. They have been a persistent problem for farmers for centuries, milk fever first being documented in 1793 in Germany and ketosis reported in the USA as early as 1849.
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GLOBAL CONSTRUCTION and agricultural equipment maker JCB has posted its best results in its 66-year history.
A DIESEL version of the new Kia Rio is on sale in New Zealand touted as “one of the most economical new cars in the country”.
Wellsford is most certainly settling into winter mode with just 163 head yarded on Monday.
Sale goers were once again greeted by freezing temperatures at Temuka on Monday with the mercury barely in the positive.
The attached report contains the latest benchmark prices for lamb, beef and deer (works and store prices), as well as updates on the forces that influence these prices (including international market prices, exchange rates and local procurement issues).
Over the past few weeks, US imported beef prices have dropped as a result of reduced demand for imported product.
Quantec Ltd has signed a major deal to sell its patented milk protein ingredient – IDP - to Auckland-based NZ New Paradise.
A judge has ordered a Northland farmer to pay $24,000 for illegal discharges of dairy effluent from a storage tank and pond at the man's Donnelly's Crossing property in 2010.
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There was quality aplenty in the ewe pens at Stortford today and despite the dismal weather a good bench of buyers bided up with prices up a notch on recent weeks.
The value of NZ exports have continued to fall from their peak in November 2011.
The North Island store cattle market is fairly quiet as farmers batten down the hatches for winter.
The store cattle market in the South Island is still fairly buoyant in comparison to the lamb job seeing the outlook appears more promising.
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