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12 February 2012 - 3:25 pm NZ time
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- NZX to run Fonterra share market
- Fonterra has confirmed that the New Zealand Stock Exchange will run its new farmer shareholders market from November this year.
- New water allocation rules in Waikato
- Waikato Regional Council is contacting more than 3000 dairy farmers who need resource consents under new water allocation rules.
- Pilot programme to reduce electricity costs
- Fonterra is to encouraging all its farmer suppliers to carry out energy audits, following the success of a pilot programme that showed how farmers could reduce their electricity costs.
- Wider interest at wool sale
- The exchange rate and economic woes in some overseas markets continue to keep the pressure on wool prices. But more than 80% of the offering at this week's combined North and South Island auction was sold.
- Blame shared on strawberry kit biosecurity breach
- The Ministry of Agriculture is spreading the blame for a biosecurity breach relating to imported strawberry growing kits.
- Union wants milk price inquiry to dig deep
- The Dairy Workers Union says Parliament's milk price inquiry needs to expose the real pressure points of milk and dairy product pricing at the wholesale and retail level.
- RSPCA wants more enforceable animal welfare codes
- The Royal New Zealand SPCA wants animal welfare codes made more enforceable.
- Genetic history of sheep breeds being researched
- International research involving New Zealand scientists has uncovered new information about the genetic history of sheep breeds that will help in the quest to improve production and disease resistence in sheep.
- Milk inquiry to continue
- Parliament's Commerce Select Committee has decided its inquiry into the price of milk will continue.
- MAF working on new animal welfare strategy
- The Ministry of Agriculture & Forestry is working on a new national strategy for animal welfare and a review of animal welfare legislation.
- Apple packaging shortage should be avoided
- Pipfruit New Zealand thinks a packaging shortage has been avoided for this season's apple exports, after a fire at a factory where moulded trays are made.
- NZ companies at fresh produce trade fair in Germany
- New Zealand horticulture companies are among almost 2500 exhibitors at the world's largest fresh produce trade fair in Berlin this week. The event draws 50,000 visitors.
- Avocado industry trials new technology to send fruit further
- The avocado industry is looking to ship its fruit much further afield with a new technology that prevents it from ripening in transit.
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