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Taranaki foreign farms buy-up nearer |
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06 Feb 2012 |
A mysterious foreign buyer could be just days away from snapping up more than 2000 hectares of eastern Taranaki farmland in a deal that locals fear will destroy their community.
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JUDGES CRITIQUE DAIRY AWARDS ENTRANTS |
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03 Feb 2012 |
Judging has begun in the rigorous process to select the winners in the 2012 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards from the record 525 entrants.
The entrants are split among 12 regions, with regional competitions selecting the best to proceed on to...
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SCF farm sale ends feud |
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03 Feb 2012 |
Receivers for South Canterbury Finance have sold out of South Island farm giant Dairy Holdings for $55 million, ending a bitter fight over its ownership.
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Landcorp signs Crafar farms deal |
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31 Jan 2012 |
Landcorp has lost its last chance to own the Crafar Farms after its board yesterday signed a deal to run the 8000 hectares of dairy farming land for a Chinese conglomerate
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Changes to dairy regulation won’t make milk cheaper |
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27 Jan 2012 |
None of the proposed changes to the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act will reduce the retail price of milk.
“Not one of the changes proposed to the Dairy Industry Restructuring Act, or its regulations, will make milk any cheaper in the...
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GREAT MILK SUBSIDY WILL LINE FOREIGN POCKETS |
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25 Jan 2012 |
Kiwi families likely to miss out on cheaper milk as profits from extra 200 million litres heads offshore
Fonterra said today it was still working through the detail of the Government’s proposals on the oversight of farmgate milk pricing, but said...
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Wool prices dip as supply rises |
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24 Jan 2012 |
Wool prices are under pressure as large volumes come on to the market from January to March.
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Farm sales on the rise |
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22 Jan 2012 |
The Real Estate Institute says a healthy trend is emerging as farm sales rise
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WESTLAND MILK PRODUCTS ANNOUNCED FINALIST |
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20 Jan 2012 |
Westland Milk Products (Westland) is delighted to announce that it has been named a finalist in the esteemed 2012 New Zealand International Business Awards.
The New Zealand International Business Awards is a prestigious business awards programme...
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FONTERRA EXPORTS BREAK RECORDS IN DECEMBER |
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20 Jan 2012 |
Fonterra has broken its record for the highest export month with 246,000 tonnes of dairy products loaded on ships during December boosting New Zealand’s economy by $1.3 billion for the month.
In March 2011 Fonterra shipped 229,000 tonnes of...
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A bigger world stage for sheep shearing goes viral |
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20 Jan 2012 |
The media response to sheep shearing’s potential as a Commonwealth Games demonstration sport, if not the Olympics, has gone international.
“Shearing as a demonstration sport has gone viral,” says Jeanette Maxwell, Federated Farmers Meat &...
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Farmer admits part in $2.3m fraud |
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17 Jan 2012 |
A farmer has pleaded guilty to seven charges under the Crimes Act relating to a $2.3 million farming fraud.
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Landcorp 'will pay out $18m' |
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13 Jan 2012 |
State-owned farmer Landcorp says it is yet to finalise a sharemilking arrangement with the Chinese bidder for the former Crafar farm assets, after a rival bidder claimed $18 million a year could go overseas from the deal.
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First drought now a hail alert for Southern farmers |
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11 Jan 2012 |
The moderate La Niña weather pattern drying out Southern farms, now carries the risk of hail this afternoon for inland Southland and central Otago. This development has Federated Farmers hoping for rain instead of severe drought last...
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Fewer sheep as wool prices down but meat up |
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11 Jan 2012 |
Wool used to account for more than a quarter of New Zealand's export earnings – now it is less than 2 percent. But lamb, hogget and mutton are earning nearly $3 billion dollars a year for the country.
The latest issue of Statistics New Zealand's...
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Farmers fined $73k for draining wetland |
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11 Jan 2012 |
A Waikato farming couple face fines of over $73,000 after draining an internationally recognised wetland to increase farm production.
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Should farmers be licensed to operate? |
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11 Jan 2012 |
OPINION: It's the time of year when columnists with nothing better to write about inflict on you their uninformed and prejudiced predictions of what the coming year is likely to bring.
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WEATHER DEALS EXTREMES FOR DAIRY AWARDS ENTRANTS |
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11 Jan 2012 |
Weather extremes across the country are making life interesting on the farm for entrants in the 2012 New Zealand Dairy Industry Awards, as they head into judging later this month.
The awards national executive chairman Matthew Richards says his...
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TAF DUE DILIGENCE COMMITTEE PROVIDES ADDITIONAL OVERSIGHT |
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11 Jan 2012 |
Several independent expert advisors are running the ruler over Fonterra’s Trading Among Farmers (TAF) to ensure the scheme preserves 100 per cent farmer control and ownership, as part of a comprehensive due diligence process.
A due diligence...
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Rapid rate secures shearing world record |
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10 Jan 2012 |
After shearing his final lamb at 5pm yesterday, Ivan Scott sat back, cracked open a beer, and took his first sip as the freshly-crowned world record holder.
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LAST CHANCE FOR UNIQUE WESTLAND MILK PRODUCTS SCHOLARSHIP |
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06 Jan 2012 |
Students who are thinking of embarking on tertiary study but fear the cost are being urged to apply for the new Start-Up scholarship established by Westland Milk Products.
The Pike River and Canterbury Disaster Relief Fund, which funds the...
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Dairy product prices fall 0.7 per cent |
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04 Jan 2012 |
Prices of dairy products fell in the first sale on Fonterra Co-operative Group's GlobalDairyTrade platform for 2012, paced by whole and skim milk powder.
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Dairy's waterways policing 'woeful' |
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03 Jan 2012 |
Tasman dairy farmers have been chided for providing misleading information on excluding livestock from waterways – a key measure of the Dairying and Clean Streams Accord – after an independent audit found their performance was one of the worst in...
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Federated Farmers promotes farming facts |
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02 Jan 2012 |
Federated Farmers President, Bruce Wills, has used an opinion piece in yesterday’s Sunday Star Times, to push for facts to come into the debate about farming; facts and information easily obtained from farming organisations but especially from New...
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Fears neglect on the rise as young fail to work the land |
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01 Jan 2012 |
Starving, neglected sheep and cattle threaten to become an increasing problem as ageing farmers struggle to move off their land.
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