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Now the rain is here, what happens next? Green pastures have reappeared on much of the nation's farmland, but the colour on most balance sheets is red.
Mid-drought talk of a $2 billion hit to the economy could be on the light side. Dairy incom...
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Port of Tauranga is unloading the final bulk feed shipment to arrive there from the South Island.
A further shipment is being unloaded at the Port of Napier on Thursday and there will be one last delivery there next month.
That will wrap up the e...
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In Hawke's Bay's long hot drought, Mark and Monique Jones-Ciochetto's berkshire pigs were suffering from the heat. The new free range pig farmers at Waipawa didn't know any other commercial pork producers raising the small, hairy "berkies" so the...
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Zodiac, a simmental bull weighing 850kg and not yet two years old, beat the other best bulls from each of the breeds to win the Champion of Champions award at this week's Beef Expo.
He was bred by Tony and Glennis Thompson in Central Hawke's Bay a...
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The worrying rate of suicide amongst farmers has been a major focus today at a farm safety conference in Wellington.
The sector faces an alarming suicide rate, and now industry leaders are working to bring the numbers down.
According to figures f...
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Farmers in parched pockets of the North Island have missed out yet again on the widespread rain which brought flooding and power cuts to Auckland and Wellington on Monday.
Federated Farmers adverse events spokesperson Katie Milne says while rain f...
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The Federated Farmers Grain & Seed led feed operation, which will have shipped some 220,000 small bale equivalents from the South Island, may soon be approaching an end.
With demand beginning to slow, Federated Farmers is concerned some farmer...
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Deluges this weekend have started to address drought conditions in the lower North Island.
Wairarapa farmers in particular benefited from the past two days rain, with falls of up to 146 millimetres recorded by MetService around the region, althoug...
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Weekend rain has brought further relief to farmers in drought areas.
While some say it's been enough to break the back of the drought for them, others say they are not out of trouble yet and follow up rain over the next few weeks will be critical....
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New Zealand has "heaps" of water, but the country is not good at using it efficiently, says Federated Farmers president Bruce Wills, as the country suffers one of the worst droughts in 70 years. "We let most of it run out to sea in the winter, and ...
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Farmers battling drought in central Hawke's Bay are in for a grim winter with many missing out on the widespread but patchy rain that's fallen in the past two weeks.
Hawke's Bay sheep and beef farmer, Will Foley, says his farm south of Waipukerau ...
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Red grape harvest gears up in NZ
The predictions of a great wine vintage are continuing as wine makers harvest red grapes
Wine makers are continuing to predict a great vintage as the harvest of red grapes gears up this weekend.
Many Hawke's Bay ...
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