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• Methane emissions: Work towards 'holy grail' of vaccine ramps up
  A joint venture working to reduce on farm emissions is doubling down on efforts to create a vaccine. […]
• ANZCO posts full-year profit, bucking industry trend
  The profit is a standout considering other major meat players, Silver Fern Farms and Alliance, have posted big losses. […]
• Cheaper fruit and veges due to 'superb' growing conditions
  Idyllic growing conditions have led to fresh fruit and vegetable prices dropping 25 percent compared to this time last year - and they are now at pric […]
• Trial on changing truck driver requirements could go nationwide
  The trial involves dropping the log book for drivers to record their hours in favour of a fatigue-testing app, and changing break requirements. […]
• Sheep farmers cutting costs, looking for new income sources as prices plummet
  One of them said Wellington was "a vortex sucking cash out of the rest of the economy". […]
• Almost all Canterbury A&P board members set to retire
  Working with the association's general committee has become difficult, so the board has chosen to step down, chairperson Stewart Mitchell says. […]
• Demand from China for NZ red meat weakens
  Bit it was partly offset by good demand from other markets, the meat industry association says. […]
• Bumper harvest brings relief for Kaipara kumara growers
  After the devastation wreaked by Cyclone Gabrielle, Kaipara's kumara growers are celebrating a bumper harvest. […]
• The future of farming: How technology can get NZ farms a competitive advantage
  NZ could have a competitive advantage to be the closest to net zero dairy in the world, fifth-generation farmer Stu Taylor says. […]
• City couple's mushroom venture sprouts from pandemic
  On the rural outskirts of Taupō a young couple have started a mushroom venture far removed from their previous life in Auckland. […]
• New Zealand's iconic sheep-to-person ratio keeps falling
  Sheep numbers continue to fall due to land conversion to forestry. New StatsNZ figures show the national flock dropped by 3 percent in the year to Jun […]