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LivestockThe co-operative reports NZ$3.4bn operating profit and expects collections just above 1.6 billion kg of milk solids, while its chair says the El Niño's severity is unknown.
AgrotechA World Agri-Tech panel in London said driverless tractors will spread only as fast as implements from different brands can work with them, with data ownership another hurdle.
LivestockLamb schedules near $12/kg and record store prices lifted 2025-26, but falling lamb numbers, rising costs and US tariff risk set the tone for 2026-27.
LivestockThe three-year, $2 million Wisewool programme, with $800,000 from the Primary Sector Growth Fund, will test wool bedding against synthetics in homes and sleep labs.
CropsThe Agricultural Compounds and Veterinary Medicines Amendment Bill passed 101 to 21, letting regulators draw on overseas assessments; industry now wants the larger HSNO bill and fair consultation on regulations.
AgribusinessRural Contractors NZ says diesel has risen more than 30 cents a litre in weeks, surcharges will pass to farmers, and some arable clients are cutting back to run sheep.
AgribusinessThe dairy co-operative's FY2026 results show NZ$2.6bn after-tax profit, a NZ$9.69/kgMS milk price and record volumes, and it will invest an extra NZ$1bn in South Island protein manufacturing.
AgrotechAt an AWS Cloud and AI Day, NZ Young Farmers' Cheyne Gillooly said AI will speed dairy, sheep and plant genetics research to market, while farmers described the shift to per-animal and in-paddock data.
Market ManagementGrowers and food makers warn that National's pre-election plan to force a break-up of the Foodstuffs co-operative's Pak'nSave business could raise supply costs rather than cut food prices.
FruitsHawke's Bay grower John Bostock has secured southern-hemisphere rights to the Haegeum gold kiwifruit and wants to export it, which current rules reserve to Zespri.
LivestockThe liquidator is reclaiming payments made to 96 farmers, feed companies, quarantine properties and the Irish broker Purcell before the May 2022 Ocean Ute shipment to China; a handful of farmers are settling at a discount.
LivestockWith vineyards and orchards on the Heretaunga Plains being returned to pasture, landowners are eyeing lambs and Friesian bull calves; store lambs peaked above $6/kg liveweight in June and ewes with lambs at foot are $20 a head up on last year.
EnvironmentA non-notified Otago consent allows up to 2,000 cubic metres of wastewater sludge a year on 178 hectares in the Manuherekia catchment; Otago president Anna Gillespie calls it an 'indefensible regulatory disparity' and wants a national rule.
