Tougher rules around the treatment of bobby calves will start
before the spring calving season, but other measures on food
and shelter will be delayed until next year.

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Minister for Primary Industries Nathan Guy says he had
“strong words” with his Italian counterpart after seeds
imported from Italy led to a potentially costly outbreak of
velvetleaf.

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Woolson, the ram rescued by the Dannevirke SPCA in a night
time operation by jet boat, has finally had what’s believed
to be his first shear.

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New Zealand’s special agricultural trade envoy says a bid by
animal activists to slate the country’s dairy industry is
“grossly irresponsible”.

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A Waikato farmer has launched an impassioned defence of his
fellow farmers following an expose on the “dark side of the
farming industry”.

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Dairy industry representatives say they are “appalled” by
cruelty in New Zealand’s dairy industry uncovered by a
Farmwatch NZ investigation.

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The chances of an upgrade in Fonterra’s farmgate milk price
forecast became more remote this morning after world dairy
prices fell by by 7.4% at the GlobalDairyTrade auction. The
decline was sharper than futures marke…

A former Westport dairy farm manager who admitted his guilt
to the “sadistic” ill- treatment of hundreds of dairy cows
was yesterday jailed for four-and-a-half years.

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New Zealand’s primary sector looks to have come out of the
Trans Pacific Partnership agreement favourably, with the
notable exception of the country’s biggest export – dairy.

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West Otago farmer and Silver Fern Farms shareholder Allan
Richardson is to stand for a position as a South Island
director for the national rural supplies cooperative,
Farmlands.

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