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Two key trade agreements could dictate beef sales in 2018, claims Rabobank.

Many young people, especially from urban backgrounds, don’t realise how broad the opportunities are in the rural sector, says Waikato University agribusiness and marketing student Celine Walters.

‘A season to remember’ and ‘a profitable year for all sectors’: economic forecasters have a rosy outlook for the year.

The change of government is rattling farmer confidence, according to the latest Rabobank Rural Confidence Survey.

A fall of 3.4% in the overall GDT Event price index last week was the fourth consecutive fall and prices are now at eight-month lows.

Fonterra's forecast milk price of $6.75/kgMS is looking shaky, bank economists agree.

Fonterra has lowered its forecast milk collection for the 2017-18 season.

Three bank economists see a risk of downside to farmgate prices from last week’s GDT auction where the overall price index dropped 2.4%.

Rabobank’s latest Global Dairy Quarterly says global prices appear to have peaked in the current cycle.

Farmers’ fears about the outcome of the election and a new-look government have led to a slight drop in overall confidence in the latest Rabobank farmer confidence survey.