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The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio

There's no room left in Barry Skinner's music museum in Hector. "I've run out of wall space so I'm hanging off the roof now," says the dobro and lap-steel playing collector. Video, Audio

In this episode Alistair and Genna have empty heifers to deal with after their new bull delivers low pregnancy rates. Audio

Leah Tebbutt heads to Bay of Plenty to find out how farmers are restoring the health of one of New Zealand's most polluted estuaries. Audio

A look at the week's agricultural news. Audio

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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Despite dairy farmers cutting costs where they can, the industry expects many of them will make a loss this season.

DairyNZ says farmers are looking at their budgets line-by-line to reduce… Audio

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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An 11 percent fall in whole milk powder prices this week will see farmers across the country lose money this season.

Softening demand from China means the price - which strongly affects the pay-out… Audio

The dairy market has gone sour literally overnight, leaving some farmers gumboot deep in debt. Prices crashed to their lowest levels in nearly five years at the Global Dairy Trade Auction. The average… Video, Audio

Going to work to lose money.' Dairy farmers around the country say they'll be tightening their belts after international diary prices crashed to their lowest levels in nearly five years overnight… Video, Audio

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

Monique Steele has the rural news. Audio

The government has a goal to grow aquaculture to a $3 billion-a-year industry. But red tape – and red flags – stand in the way. Audio

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

Monique Steele has the rural news.  Audio