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Lavender business blooms

Jan and Stuart Abernethy at their Lavender Abbey farm in the Wairarapa, which has bloomed into an award-winning business.

What started 15 years ago as "pottering around" has developed into a nice award-winning business for Wairarapa lavender grower Jan Abernethy.

Published in General News

Editorial: Costly livestock export ban

A nationwide ban on live exports by sea is now in place.

OPINION: As the Galloway Express left Port Taranaki last month with cattle for China, it marked the end of livestock export.

Published in Opinion

Co-op opens fifth application centre

Chinese beverages using Fonterra products on display at the new application centre.

Fonterra has established its fifth application centre in China, but unlike the other four, the newest one is focused on beverage applications.

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Feds boss favours live exports

A ban on livestock exports by the Labour Government came into effect last month.

The battle lines are being drawn on the National Party's recently announced agricultural policy.

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Farm inflation set to plummet

Westpac's Nathan Penny expects feed, fertiliser, and fuel prices to fall by the end of this year.

Some good news on the horizon for dairy farmers.

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Autumn chill hits markets

Dairy

Published in Agribusiness

Confidence bounce back

Rabobank New Zealand chief executive Todd Charteris.

Rabobank's latest Rural Confidence survey has found that while farmers' sentiments are still in deeply negative territory, they have crept up from historic lows in late 2022.

Published in Agribusiness

Geopolitical dilemma for Kiwi exporters

Jan Lambregts, Rabobank, says geopolitics is playing a major part how countries are trading.

New Zealand runs the risk of being caught up in the economic war between China and the US, according to Rabobank's head of global economics and research, Jan Lambregts.

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