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THE 2012-13 milk season is off to a flying start.
Feilding store lamb prices continue to defy the odds with sizeable lifts across nearly all weights and grades.
Australian mutton production hit rock bottom last year by hitting its lowest annual total in over three decades.
DOES THIS sound familiar? You write all your calvings into your notebook or on a scrap of paper, then when you go to enter it in the computer it’s missing – or you’re unsure whether one digit is a 6 or a 0.
INDUSTRY BENCHMARKS set repeatedly by Polaris quads in ride quality show these machines to be “getting better and better,” says maker Polaris Industries.
DAIRY FARMERS could lower the risk of mastitis and grades from somatic cell counts and other bacteria with a Dairymaster ClusterCleanse, says company director Craig Burrows.
HYUNDAI MOTORS New Zealand has launched its new Veloster Turbo in showrooms.
THE FOURTH generation Range Rover is touted as the most capable and luxurious Land Rover yet. Lighter, stronger and with new levels of refinement, it presents as the world’s finest luxury SUV, says global brand director John Edwards.
Agent's powers combined to pull in over 1,000 cattle to Stortford today and with the cattle came the people, as a packed rostrum housed people from as far away as Feilding and Wanganui, joined by the local contingent.
At the beginning of the year, the outlook for the chilled season was fairly optimistic. Winter contracts were released in the late $8.00/kg which set the tone for the weaner sales.
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Fonterra's record end-of-season quarter has been the cooperative's biggest ever May, June, and July – with 620,000 metric tonnes of dairy products loaded on ships for export to over 100 markets around the world.
The first whole milk powder has rolled off the processing line at Fonterra's new $200 million manufacturing site near Darfield in Canterbury and are bound for South East Asia, China and the Middle East.
iFarm's price projections for beef remain fairly similar to last month. This is despite factoring a higher NZ dollar through the rest of the outlook period.
Both beef and lamb schedule prices in the North Island are under pressure at a time when prices are typically on the rise.
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