Rural News

The New Zealand wool flooring manufacturer Bremworth is hoping to boost confidence in the wool sector by offering ten-year contracts for farmer suppliers.

Susan Murray has the rural news. Read more Audio

Rainfall watches are in place through to this evening and totals over the past 24 hours are ranging from 70 to 150 millimetres in Bay of Plenty and 300 millimetres north of Gisborne.

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Many farmers are in damage control, putting out supplementary feed and moving stock after heavy rainfall resulted in flooding across the Southland region.

Monique Steele has the business news. Read more Audio

Fonterra has made a record profit with the dairy giant's profit for the year to July was $1.6 billion dollars, a 170% lift on last year. 

Monique Steele has the rural news.

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Heavy rainfall destroyed around four million young plants at the country's three main propagators at Bay of Plenty nurseries, earlier this year.

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Animal welfare group SAFE has asked parties polling over 5 percent for their thoughts on a range of policy stances relating to animal welfare.

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