Primary Sector
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Primary Sector
Wake Up Call: Dairy price celebration, high steel prices
Soaring steel prices are causing a headache for builders, while good dairy prices are cause for celebration for New Zealand's dairy farmers.
Opinion
Pattrick Smellie: Six things to help fix the building timber shortage
NZ's construction timber sector is remarkably protected from offshore competition while building regulations raise prices and kill new ideas.
Primary Sector
Fonterra completes sale of wholly-owned China farm hubs
Total establishment costs and operational losses hit around $1 billion over 10 years.
Primary Sector
Log prices spurring recovery in regional NZ
Log prices moving higher on the back of demand from China, domestic construction and tight global supply.
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Riley Kennedy
Senior Journalist
Riley Kennedy joined BusinessDesk in 2022 and covers New Zealand’s primary sector, with a focus on the country’s agribusinesses and the broader food and fibre economy. He won the DairyNZ Industry Award at the NZ Guild of Agricultural Journalists and Communicators Awards in 2024, and was named Emerging Journalist of the Year by the New Zealand Shareholders Association in 2022. Riley previously worked as a business specialist at the Otago Daily Times and holds a diploma in journalism from Wintec.
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