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Hail storm causes millions in losses
17 Jan 2024A group of 12 to 15 arable farmers are counting about $6 million in losses from a late hail storm landing in a belt running from Canterbury's Methven to Highbank.
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Call for national wine museum
9 Jan 2024"A light, white wine," read New Zealand's first ever tasting note, penned in 1840. Audio
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Racing pigs, rides and rural displays draw crowds to Kaikohe A&P
21 Jan 2024In the most anticipated political race since last year's general election, a piglet named David Seymour has beaten porker "The Jones Boy" - named in honour of NZ First's Shane Jones - by a nose.
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Prices up at latest Global Dairy Trade auction
The overall price index is now up more than 2 percent.
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On your marks, get set ... oink! Pig racing tries to steal the show
19 Jan 2024Pig racing with contestants named after politicians is expected to be one of the highlights of the Kaikohe A&P Show.
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'Ghastly' theft as farm loses hundreds of kgs of blueberries
11 Jan 2024At this time of year, it was a significant loss for the Bay Blueberries farm.
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Criticism helps spur shearer Amy Silcock to break world record
A shearing champion says stubbornness and determination to prove critics wrong saw her crack a world record on Sunday.
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Rural Taranaki turns on the festive charm
Country Life - The Grinch is surfing through paddocks and cows are driving tractors on the rural roadside of Taranaki - but who won the festive farm art competition? Audio
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'It's going to be a three-to-four year recovery, $1m-$1.5m probably' - station owner
Ten months after Cyclone Gabrielle, bad weather has left the recovery for many East Coast and Tairāwhiti farmers stuck in the mud.
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A2 Milk adds costs on Synlait amid contract dispute
Speciality dairy company A2 Milk has ramped up pressure on its supplier Synlait Milk.
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Dairy prices rise again at year's last trade auction
The average price rose 2.3 percent to US$3388 a tonne, while the whole milk powder price was up 2.9 percent to US$3207 a tonne.
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King Country shearer breaks world record
20 Dec 2023Sacha Bond has become the first woman to shear more than 700 sheep in a nine-hour day.
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Record low satisfaction with banks from farmers - survey
The number of farmers still satisfied with their banking relationship had gone down nearly 1 percent to 56 percent in a new survey.
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The 'spy' wallabies infiltrating mobs of their own kind
19 Dec 2023The 'seeker' wallabies fitted with GPS collars have been airlifted into the wild in the hope they will lead hunters to other members of the species.
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Farmers urged to be safe on quad bikes this Christmas
18 Dec 2023WorkSafe is investigating the deaths of two workers on quad bikes recently - one near Stratford in late November, and the other near Tauranga in December.
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Great corn crop despite 'war against the weather'
18 Dec 2023The country's largest corn grower said despite recent wet weather the crop is looking great as cobs start hitting supermarket shelves.
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Rebuilding orchards and vineyards, one fencepost at a time
16 Dec 2023Almost 12,500 broken orchard and vineyard fenceposts ripped from the ground during Cyclone Gabrielle have found new homes in farms across Hawke's Bay.
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Farmer confidence remains low but sentiment improving - survey
Primary producers are bracing for conditions in the agricultural economy to worsen over the coming year, according to a survey.
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Second Selwyn farm infected with mycoplasma bovis
15 Dec 2023The farm and another next door will have to be cleared of cattle and disinfected.
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Decline in export revenue forecast due to low demand, prices
14 Dec 2023New Zealand's food and fibre exports are forecast to dip this year mainly due to softer demand and weaker prices for dairy and red meat.
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Fewer licences to be released for growing Sungold kiwifruit
14 Dec 2023Kiwifruit marketer Zespri will release fewer licences to grow the gold variety next season and it won't release any for the Ruby-Red variety.
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Wool storage almost at full capacity in North Island
13 Dec 2023With the new season of shearing now underway, it is expected things will get worse.
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Fears for growers' income if boggy ground prevents maize planting
13 Dec 2023Soggy ground conditions have left arable growers on the East Coast struggling to get maize in the ground.
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Irrigation technology claims to save water usage by 50 percent
13 Dec 2023New technology which could help save water use in the horticulture sector is being trialled in Hawke's Bay orchards this summer.
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