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A Mid-Canterbury dairy farmer is bringing a millennial mindset to his family farm and is reaping the rewards, with a 50% uplift in milksolids production since he took over.

Farmers, foresters and orchardists have just a few days left to complete the official agricultural production census, run by Statistics NZ in partnership with MPI.

New data from Statistics NZ shows that Canterbury had the biggest fall in agricultural emissions, down 2.7%, mainly due to a decline in livestock numbers.

Agriculture has kept losses to a minimum as New Zealand reported its largest ever GDP drop on record.

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

Farmer groups are backing Government proposals to prevent productive land from falling to housing development.

Canterbury has seen a 42% increase in livestock per hectare in the past 15 years as the region farms more dairy cows over sheep.

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.

In the September 2016 quarter, producer output prices rose 1%, and producer input prices rose 1.5%.