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<description><![CDATA[The latest from Straight Furrow]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[New directors on Meat & Wool board]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The Returning Officer for director elections in the two contested Meat & Wool New Zealand wards has notified that Kirsten Bryant has been elected to represent the Western North Island ward and Anne Munro has been elected to represent the Central South Island ward.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:30:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Solari betters own world wheat record]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Southland farmer Mike Solari beat his own world record for wheat yield last week by growing a 15.637 tonne/ha crop of Einstein.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Drought or no drought, Field Days are fun]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[THE Northland Field Days opened on March 4 to a steaming, sunny day in Dargaville. Despite the ongoing drought putting pressure on local farmers’ pockets, there was a steady influx of visitors through the gate, with numbers only slightly down on 2009 (5600 people).]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[New alligator weed outbreak]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Environment Waikato is working with landowners at a new subdivision in north Hamilton to deal with one of the largest infestations of alligator weed the city has seen.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:53:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fonterra's Chile staff 'safe']]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Fonterra has confirmed that all staff in Chile have been safely accounted for, including those who were on leave at the time of the earthquake.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 03:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA['Driver's licence harder to obtain than pilot's licence']]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[It will soon be harder to obtain a motor vehicle driver’s licence than it is to qualify as a private pilot, says the Federated Farmers.
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<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 01:51:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[AgResearch welcomes CRI taskforce call]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[AgResearch, New Zealand’s largest Crown Research Institute, congratulates the CRI Taskforce and its Chairman Neville Jordan for their thorough analysis and incisive recommendations on how to enhance the value of New Zealand’s CRIs.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Science partnership to tackle greenhouse gases]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Increasing agriculture’s ability to create wealth for New Zealand in a carbon constrained world is the mission of the Government’s New Zealand Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Research Centre opened yesterday by the Prime Minister John Key in Palmerston North at AgResearch’s Grasslands campus.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:26:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fonterra reacts to Chilean quake]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Fonterra, through its subsidiary Soprole, employs around 1800 people in Chile.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 02:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Producers prepare for bumpy road to recovery]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[While the improving global economy is expected to have a positive impact on most agricultural sectors, primary producers will need to manage their operations in a potentially volatile marketplace, according to Rabobank‘s group executive country banking Neil Dobbin.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[United action on wool woes]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Meat & Wool New Zealand and Federated Farmers of New Zealand are joining forces to support wool industry rescue efforts.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[GlobalDairyTrade event reflects stable market]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[globalDairyTrade, Fonterra’s internet-based sales platform, concluded its March trading event this morning (NZT) with the average price for Whole Milk Powder up 0.8 per cent, or US$25 per tonne, from the February event.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:07:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Fonterra profit forecast 'positive']]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Federated Farmers is welcoming a minimum 10 per cent uplift in Fonterra Co-operative Group’s Distributable Profit forecast range for the 2009/2010 season.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 21:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Farmers slate Horizons lack of horizon on water]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Today, Federated Farmers will outline how it would transform Horizons Regional Council’s contentious One Plan water chapters from unworkable to workable.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Rural property market dips]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[The rural property market continues to dip on the back of ongoing low dairy farm sales, as seen in the latest figures released today by the Real Estate Institute of New Zealand (REINZ).]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[West Coast forest strategy released]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Forestry Minister David Carter has released the Government’s future strategy for the Crown’s West Coast plantation forests, which aims to keep as much production and employment on the Coast as possible.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Generous gesture from Waikato farmer]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Former Waikato farmer and property developer Bill Flower has made a generous gesture to Waikato University.  Ninety-year-old Mr Flower is offering a postgraduate student $30,000 a year for three years to study an aspect of New Zealand agriculture.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:12:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[LIC half year earnings drop]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Farmer owned co-operative, Livestock Improvement (LIC) has announced underlying earnings of $19.9 million for the six months to 30 November 2009.  This compares to $25.4 million for the same period in 2008/2009.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 00:44:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Easter Show entries close Feb 26]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Breeders have until 26 February to enter this year’s Royal Easter Show A&P competitions on in Auckland from 1-5 April.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[What’s your poison? - 1080 demystified]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the lead feature of the latest edition of the National Farming Review, currently being posted to Federation members, Federated Farmers has laid down the gauntlet to anti-1080 groups.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:29:00 GMT</pubDate>
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