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NZ farmer confidence rebounds in second quarter as dairy price improves
By Sophie Boot June 27 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand farmer confidence bounced in the second quarter to the first net positive reading in more than a year, with a significant upswing across all sectors as rising dairy prices fuelled positivity. A net 3 percent of farmers wer...
Dairy farmers need to reconsider 'smart level' of debt, Feds dairy chairman Hoggard says
By Fiona Rotherham June 27 (BusinessDesk) - Dairy farmers need to ask themselves what a smart level of debt is given the risk profile for the next decade is likely to be different than the last, says Federated Farmers Dairy chairman Andrew Hoggard. Compared to other countri...
NZ sheepmeat, tourism may be hardest hit by Brexit as pound weakens, market volatility jumps
By Jonathan Underhill June 27 (BusinessDesk) - New Zealand's sheepmeat exports and tourists from the UK may be the hardest hit from the Brexit with the most immediate impact likely to be on British tourists suddenly finding the spending power of the pound against the kiwi is t...