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The Alliance Group has struck export success in South America with New Zealand's first branded premium lamb shipment to Brazil.
THE GOVERNMENT is asking for feedback on a proposed national strategy for animal welfare which Primary Industries Minister David Carter says will improve the way the Animal Welfare Act operates.
The combined North and South Island wool auction saw a 79% clearance, the highest this season, with prices generally increasing across the board.
iFarm's price projections for beef remain fairly similar to last month. This is despite factoring a higher NZ dollar through the rest of the outlook period.
Both beef and lamb schedule prices in the North Island are under pressure at a time when prices are typically on the rise.
Labour's Primary Industries spokesperson Damien O'Connor has come out in support of a rural breast cancer fundraiser following 'revelations' that older farmers were loath to be associated with the colour pink.
Prolonged wet weather and surface flooding is causing concern on-farm during a very busy period in the farming calendar, with calving and in some pockets, lambing, underway.
Proposed changes to the animal welfare system are going out to public comment.
Rural Women New Zealand is teaming up with Farmlands to give away gardening grants to six lucky North Island rural primary schools.
Top performing New Zealand sheep breeders were recognised at the first-ever Beef + Lamb New Zealand Sheep Industry Awards in Invercargill last week.
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More than a third, 36%, of farmers expect the agricultural economy to worsen in the next 12 months, according to a June quarter confidence survey by Rabobank.
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