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• Farming app detects rise in 'suspicious' fuel takes overnight
  An app that monitors farm fuel tanks is reporting an uptick in nighttime withdrawals, amid the fuel crisis. […]
• Subscription-based food suppliers struggling with rising fuel costs
  Fuel prices was a big topic of conversation between artisan producers at the recent Christchurch Food Show, one supplier says. […]
• Controversial Hawke's Bay dam project gets $18m loan from government
  The proposed project would see a dam built on the Makaroro River and the flooding of 22 hectares of conservation land. […]
• Country Life: Bennik's Eggs pioneers in poultry
  From moving to cage-free farming in the 90s, becoming SPCA animal welfare accredited and to launching a liquid egg processing plant - the Bennik famil […]
• Country Life: Four farmers, one forgotten grain and the pasta-maker bringing it to the plate
  Amid a growing "eat local" movement, durum wheat is being grown and turned into pasta by an artisan food producer and a group of Wairarapa f […]
• Fonterra settles activists' misleading packaging lawsuit for '100 percent NZ grass-fed' claims
  Greenpeace Aotearoa is renewing calls for the dairy industry to ditch the use of imported palm kernel expeller feeds. […]
• Rural doctors say fuel crisis already impacting services
  Rural GPs are already facing challenges because of rising fuel prices and some are stocking up on extra medical supplies. […]
• Kiwis aren't getting their five-plus a day - vege boss
  Despite programmes in schools to teach children how to cook vegetables, "consumption seems to be dropping". […]
• Major meat firm Silver Fern Farms halts Middle East exports; returns to profit
  Silver Ferns Farms is back in the black, but also counting the costs of halting exports into its key Persian Gulf markets. […]
• Forestry industry unsure if it's included in national fuel plan
  A forestry group wants the industry to be listed as critical in the government's national fuel plan, saying it's crucial and supports other […]
• Fuel crisis: 'Business as usual', Luxon says - but some industries are struggling
  It comes as supply chain data shows the last shipments of fuel from Gulf Oil for New Zealand are likely to arrive on 20 April. […]