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A number of buyers may have opted to sell to ease the pressure on slow growing paddocks and to benefit from the strong market prices, but that may well have had a detrimental effect as prices, for younger cattle seemed to readjust to the increase in numbers.
Paralympic multiple gold medallist Sophie Pascoe will join Sarah Walker and Lisa Carrington as the new faces of Beef + Lamb New Zealand.
Fonterra has announced a final payout of $6.40/kgMS for the 2011-12 season, a drop of 19% over the previous year.
The effect on lambs when docking their tails at different lengths is to be studied in research trials by Alliance Group.
With local government spending up 119% in less than 10 years, Federated Farmers has called for local government to be refocused on local government.
Former New Zealand Sharemilker of the Year, Teresa Moore, is taking over as chair of the New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards Trust.
Horticulture New Zealand's survival depends on a levy vote which closes in a week.
MAINSTREAM MEDIA’S increasing reporting on farming’s alternative production practices is giving the public an incorrect impression of the future for farming, says a leading agricultural academic.
DEER TRANSPORT operators, and consequently their customers, face a leap in costs due to the new road user charge (RUC) system.
IT’S HIGHLY likely the Manawatu/Wanganui Regional Council’s controversial One Plan will end up in the High Court.
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BIOSECURITY HAD been used as a “political football”, including by some industry leaders, Minister for Primary Industries David Carter has told Parliament.
A major problem that meat processors are facing is built up stocks of frozen lamb. Too much money was spent on lambs at the start of the season, and when overseas markets slid, processors were too slow in adjusting schedules.
iFarm has adjusted their beef price outlook upwards slightly again this month. This is driven by an increasingly bullish outlook for US imported beef prices.
Deer farmers will soon be able to use a NAIT-approved ear tag instead of an Animal Health Board (AHB) barcoded primary tag.
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