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Banks across New Zealand are offering financial support to customers hit by the severe weather in the South Island.

An Omarama School pupil has been honoured for her brave actions after her mum fell from a horse, resulting in a spinal injury in March this year.

Focus on market fundamentals and not the fortnightly Global Dairy Trade (GDT) moves, says ASB economist Nat Keall.

ASB is rolling out more community bankers across New Zealand, providing targeted coaching and seminars to help customers with their personal finance needs.

Successive drops in global dairy prices mean the next season's opening milk price forecast is being trimmed back.

Economists are ruling out two straight seasons of a record farmgate milk price.

ASB says that, amidst the possibility of an incursion into Ukraine by Russia, it is unlikely the dairy industry will see a repeat of 2014 when conflict between the two countries led to a crash in dairy prices.

Global dairy prices have started the New Year in red hot form and ASB economist Nat Keall says a record milk price is now "a practical certainty".

ASB has joined a large chorus of banks by picking a record dairy season and strong meat prices for the year ahead.

A new record milk price for this season has been forecast as dairy products fetch higher on the back of strong demand and softening supply.