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IT IS great to see Trade Minister Tim Groser and DCANZ executive director Kimberly Crewther taking a positive stance on the news that Australia and China have signed a free trade agreement.

ANYTHING GOOD for Australia is in the long run good for New Zealand. That’s the reaction of Trade Minister Tim Groser to the news that Australia has signed a free trade agreement with China, and to speculation that their FTA with China is better than NZ’s, especially regarding dairy products.

THE AUSSIES blocked our apple exports for 90 years, but they were keen to get their hands on The Apple Pickers – at least a noteworthy 1940s painting by the famous New Zealand artist Rita Angus.

THE WORLD’S first sheep worm vaccine has been released in Australia.

Barbervax protects against barber’s pole (Haemonchus contortus) giving farmers and vets a drench alternative that will limit drench resistance, says Australia’s Sheep Collaborative Research Center (Sheep CRC).

AN AUSTRALIAN first – an above-ground effluent storage tank – is fixing problems for a Tasmanian farmer and is an aid to major research into methane gas emissions.

MANY DAIRY farmers in the Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia, are caught in the same position as Trevor Mills a year ago. He was grappling with issues of farm scale on his 180-cow unit, trying to balance a need to increase the flexibility of his time against the economic realities of volatile milk returns and labour costs.

AUSTRALIAN FARMERS will not have imposed on them a national electronic ID system for identifying sheep and goats.

WEST OTAGO livestock farmer Nelson Hancox is one of five New Zealanders selected to join the Rabobank Global Farmers Master Class in Australia next week. The week-long program will see 40 farmers from across the globe gather to share ideas and information on the future of farming and participate in the educational program.

FIVE LEADING New Zealand farmers will take part in international discussions on global food security ahead of the G20 Leaders’ Summit in Australia next month. 

AUSTRALIA’S WOOL growers have spent A$7 million in five years fighting a national wild dog plague that threatened to put them out of business.