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LivestockUpdated Veterinary Council guidance from 1 January 2027 expects antibiotics at dry-off to be justified cow by cow; DairyNZ says fewer than 5% of herds gain from treating every cow.
LivestockNew Zealand meat cooperative Alliance plans a dividend and supply rebate worth up to $20 million in late 2026, with up to $20 million more next year subject to livestock flows.
After a record $113 million operating profit, Pamu expects $77-87 million in 2027 because higher feed, fertiliser and fuel prices add nearly $30 million of costs, though production targets hold.
Facing an exodus of growers, a forum of FAR, Federated Farmers, MPI and growers agreed priorities from profitability to selling more New Zealand grain to dairy farms.
LivestockThe Waikato cooperative's 100 shareholder farms get a record payout after earnings of $13.93/kgMS, ahead of Fonterra's and Synlait's base milk prices of $9.69.
EnvironmentCouncillors chose to keep trucking more than 20,000 cubic metres of Cromwell sludge to a Southland landfill after the projected saving shrank and doubts grew over the Lauder site, a decision Federated Farmers welcomed.
The state-owned enterprise, the country's largest farming business, paid a NZ$25 million dividend and reported an 11.4% total shareholder return for its 2026 financial year.
HealthThe Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners and Hauora Taiwhenua Rural Health Network want investment in GP Rural, a proposed postgraduate pathway to prepare registrars for rural practice as older rural GPs near retirement.
LivestockA rural co-ordination group says supplementary feed is still available but silage is very tight and transport is stretched, and urges farmers to budget feed weeks ahead and ask for help early.
AgribusinessThe New Plymouth Manuka exporter settled its purchase of the 1945-founded Taihape beekeeping business on 18 September, lifting its hive count above 22,000 as national registered hives have fallen from 918,000 in 2019 to under 490,000 and raw Manuka prices begin to recover.
AgribusinessWestpac NZ's economists put a severe El Niño drought across northern and eastern New Zealand at a potential 1 per cent hit to GDP; its head of agribusiness Richard Anderson urges farmers to update budgets, check water and feed, set stock-sale trigger points and repair irrigation while the sector's l
Suppliers of silage wrap, bale wrap and agrichemical packaging will pay a fee of about 1% of product price to fund a free nationwide network of collection sites, expanding today's 240; Agrecovery will run it, and 90% of farmers polled support it, since voluntary schemes recover less than half of in-
Routine spraying and spreading of fertiliser, lime, seed and manure by drone will need only a notification to the Civil Aviation Authority instead of a certification that can take nine months and cost thousands; the Agricultural Drone Association calls it what it asked for, while the Aviation Indust
