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Statistics released today offer some insight into how COVID-19 is affecting New Zealand’s primary exports.

Meat and dairy boosted the total volume of manufacturing sales to its strongest quarterly rise in six years, Stats NZ said today.

Export prices for meat achieved their highest-ever level in the December 2019 quarter, Stats NZ said today.

If you think you paid too much for kiwifruit last Christmas, you aren’t wrong!

Export lamb and beef prices reached new highs in the September 2019 quarter, while forestry products fell sharply.

Broccoli prices more than doubled and lettuce prices rose almost 80% in January.

Sheep and cow numbers fell but beef cattle numbers rose last year.

Vegetable prices fell 8.7% in September, with lettuce prices falling 45%.

Milk powder rose $48 million in value in January 2017, despite the quantity exported falling by around 19,000 tonnes or 9.4%, Statistics New Zealand says.

Dairy products led a rise in total exports in October, but meat and offal exports were down from the same month last year, Statistics New Zealand says.