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Sheep and beef farmers on the North Island east coast are getting nervous about the lack of rain, according to Gisborne-based AgFirst consultant Peter Andrew.
Milk prices may have stabilised and will rebound next season, beef prices will hold and horticulture, particularly kiwifruit, could be the star performer this year.
The prospects for 2015 would be a lot better if there was some rain falling, says Federated Farmers president William Rolleston.
The risk of farmers suffering depression and committing suicide is greater with the lower dairy payout this season, says Rural GP Network chair Dr Jo Scott-Jones.
New Zealand agritech exports earned their producers $1.2 billion in 2013. $1 billion had long been the annual export target of the sector.
If you think New Zealand dairy farmers are struggling with a low milk payout, then spare a thought for their UK counterparts.
Dairy farmers should beef up balance sheets to cope with global milk price volatility, says the head of herd improvement company CRV.
Prolonged dry weather is beginning to impact milk production in parts of Australia.
A new year and a new – while yet familiar – set of challenges face New Zealand’s agricultural sector.
2015 has been declared the International Year of the Soil by the United Nations, but for New Zealand it is water that is the burning issue.
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Welcome to 2015 and hopefully a busy and profitable year for agricultural contractors – and farmers alike – all around the country.
Once again Forest & Bird is attacking conservation-minded landowners (Rural News, Dec 16,2014 p5).
Research on lupin in New Zealand is dominated by one man’s work: Tekapo resident and former Agresearch scientist David Scott.
An early growing, nitrogen fixing, acid and aluminium tolerant plant is promising to transform productivity of New Zealand’s low fertility high country, with a grower at the forefront of its introduction reporting up to an eighteen-fold increase in stock carrying capacity.
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