Rural News

A further price shock is rattling the rural sector as dairy giant Fonterra slashes its milk price forecast for the second time in a fortnight. 

Monique Steele has the rural news.

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Conservation group Forest and Bird is calling on the fishing industry to put an end date on the controversial practice of bottom trawling. 

Monique Steele has the rural news.

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New Zealand dairy farmers are gritting their teeth as global dairy prices nose-dive to a four-year low.

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Rural services provider PGG Wrightson's annual profit has dropped by nearly a third with high debt and weaker real estate impacting returns.

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It's been six months since Cyclone Gabrielle hit the East Coast, and in the worst hit regions along the East Coast many farmers and growers are still in survival mode.

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R-CALF USA, the largest body representing producers of cattle and sheep in America, says the sheep industry there has been decimated over the last three decades with an explosion of lamb and mutton… Read more Audio