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Coronavirus
Fieldays' No 8 fencing wire solution – go online
National Fieldays is going virtual following the postponement of this June's event as event organisers cling on to their fading hope that the event could still proceed later this year. But a number of exhibitors say, with virtually zero prospects of large events being allowed...
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Markets
Don't bank on dairy saving the day
New Zealand’s primary sector exports – dairy in particular – may help weather the covid-19 storm but a sharp fall in global growth coupled with a spike in unemployment could see demand go down the drain. “New Zealand has always been dependent on agriculture and is even more so n...
Coronavirus
Moo moves: Gypsy Day gets green light
New Zealand's dairy cows will be on the move on June 1 regardless of the lockdown level.
Infrastructure
Wood processors running out of logs
Wood processors are counting on a speedy return to harvesting next week so plants started up last week don’t run out of feedstock.Red Stag Timber, the country’s largest processor, resumed processing last week using logs felled before the national covid-19 lockdown. That timber is...
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