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Comprehensive twice-daily coverage of rural events and people, including farming, horticulture, forestry, aquaculture, trade, research and rural politics.
Daily at 6:25am and 12:35pm
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Morning Rural News for 20 February 2024
News from the rural farming sector. Audio
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Midday Rural News for 19 February 2024
Fishing company executives are meeting with officials from the Ministry for Primary Industries today to discuss cameras on commercial fishing boats, amongst other things.
Monique Steele has the rural… Read more Audio
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Morning Rural News for 19 February 2024
News from the rural farming sector. Audio
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Midday Rural News for 16 February 2024
Nearly 4000 tonnes of cherries have been sent offshore this summer.
Summerfruit New Zealand chief executive, Kate Hellstrom says good sunny weather in key growing region Central Otago led to great… Read more Audio
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Morning Rural News for 16 February 2024
News from the rural farming sector. Audio
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Midday Rural News for 15 February 2024
Cordons are in place around the fire, but Fire and Emergency has been allowing farmers access to manage livestock Thursday morning.
Monique Steele has the rural news. Read more Audio
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Morning Rural News for 15 February 2024
News from the rural farming sector. Audio
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Midday Rural News for 14 February 2024
Devastated but not defeated is how one grower is describing the situation.
Early in the hours of February 14th last year, metres of floodwater ran through Linden Estate in the hard-hit Esk Valley -… Read more Audio
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Morning Rural News for 14 February 2024
News from the rural farming sector. Audio
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Midday Rural News for 13 February 2024
A Tolaga Bay farming couple are still picking up the pieces after Cyclone Gabrielle. Mike and Bridget Parker say a year on from the cyclone and they're still clearing their land, with little help from… Read more Audio
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Morning Rural News for 13 February 2024
News from the rural farming sector. Read more Audio
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Midday Rural News for 12 February 2024
Fonterra has lifted its farmgate forecast milk price for this season by 30 cents to a new mid-point of 7-dollars-80 a kilogram of milk solids.
Monique Steele has the rural news. Read more Audio
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About Rural News
Comprehensive twice daily coverage of rural events and people, including farming, horticulture, forestry, aquaculture, trade, research and rural politics.
Rural news can be heard weekdays in Morning Report at 6:22 am, and Midday Report at 12:35 pm
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