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Better returns, lower interest rates double yearly dairy farm sales

Dairy farms changing hands in past year more than doubled from previous year - ANZ report.

Avocado industry smashes records

The value of sales lifted more than 40 per cent on the year prior.

Fonterra capital restructure plan no shoo-in so far

Plan for keeping Fonterra's factories full of milk comes with plenty of questions.

Brian Fallow: Fewer animals - but better animals

Climate Change Commission sees meat and milk output standing still.

160 staff to lose jobs after paper company makes call on Tasman mill

Norske Skog will cease production at its Tasman Mill at the end of June.

No further primary export audits by China on radar so far

Some seafood suspensions continue, apple sector waits.

Unlimited broadband arrives for rural areas

Rural customers typically face higher monthly subscription costs and low data caps.

Tough times for Marlborough wine tour guides

Border reopening was not translating into more tour visitors.

Tanya Houghton is Farmlands' new CEO

Houghton excited to lead the country's largest farmer-owned rural supplier.

Winter feed concerns after floods

Severe flooding in Canterbury poses a risk for the new dairy season's production outlook.

Rural butchery adapts through changing times

The tourists are gone but have been replaced with campervans filled with travelling Kiwis.

The bitter fruits of a labour shortage: 'Disgusted' grower sells land

Vegetable grower selling land and sowing pasture in the face of enduring labour woes.

Prices ease at first GDT auction of the season

A 0.9 per cent drop in the GDT Price Index from the previous event.

Fifteen NZ dairy farms sold for $123 million

The first farm to report M.bovis during the 2017 outbreak has been sold.

Zeffer's non-alcoholic cider packs recalled as they may contain cans with alcohol in them

Zeffer Brewing zero per cent alcohol product packs recalled as it may contain alcohol.

Market close: Synlait, a2 Milk rebound on China baby news

China's new three-child policy may have just given a2 Milk and Synlait a timely boost.